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Tiny Tapeout retweeted
For a cool record I'll paste a nice image of my Tiny TPU chip rendered in Tiny Tapeout. Actual size is 320 by 100 microns.
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
Your daily dose of ASICs.
Open source silicon is becoming a reality:
here is a raw die of Leo Moser's open source FABulous FPGA.
github: github.com/mole99/gf180mcu-f…
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
Three tapeouts in about a year. Didn't expect to be writing that. Here's what they are.
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Tiny Tapeout，做你人生的第一颗开源芯片
github.com/TinyTapeout
Tiny Tapeout 正在颠覆并重塑全球微电子与半导体教育的物理门槛
它将流片（Tapeout）这一原本动辄数万至数百万美元、专属于大型科技公司的金钱游戏，降维普惠到了每个普通工程师、学生和创客的桌面上
它可能是目前设计制造到真实芯片上最快捷、最经济的方式
Tiny Tapeout 可以将定制芯片的成本压低到大约 300 美元
它向 GF 这样的晶圆厂（ GlobalFoundries 180nm、德国 IHP、SkyWater 130nm）购买一个标准大小的芯片格子（Tile），然后再把这个格子切割成几百个更小的微型数字/模拟单元（如每个包含 4k 左右的逻辑门）
大家共享硬件引脚，几百个爱好者的设计并排呆在同一块硅晶片（Silicon Die）上，通过一个内置的数字多路复用器（Multiplexer）共享同一组 24 个外部物理 IO 引脚
Tiny Tapeout 每个用户分到的面积极其微小（通常上千个门电路）和 24个 IO 引脚。在这里你只能用来跑 8 位小 CPU、简易加密算法、VGA 图像生成器等概念验证（PoC）
在最终拿到的这颗芯片，在物理上也完整包含了那一期拼车里其余所有人的设计，你只需要通过微控制器拨码，就能激活并运行属于你自己的那部分物理电路
tinytapeout.com/guides/get-s…
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
New form-factor for GF180 TT ASICs panelized for wirebonding. Can be used as a raw IC or have designs loaded and/or clocked by the CH32 MCU, while giving external circuitry access to all I/O along with a USB TUI, using github.com/psychogenic/TT-DI… (built on the amazing ch32fun lib).
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Woah, I can’t wait to watch this when I get home! I heard somebody, I think @cmoswulff who mentioned the importance of open source hardware tools when trying to integrate AI agents in your development process, which I think is pretty true
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
My son Kian was only nine years old when he made his first @tinytapeout asic design.
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
I designed an analog mixed-signal radio chip with an AI agent: about 700 prompts in a week, and it's now submitted for tapeout.
Here's how it went at each step of the design, the times it was confidently wrong, and how I caught them.
youtube.com/watch?v=c53n4mH_…
#ASIC #opensource
Our favourite part of the week is here!
This week's Chip of the Week is a design by Zachary Kohnen. Created as part of his bachelor’s thesis, the Manchester Decoder demonstrates an ASIC-based solution using Tiny Tapeout.
📡 The design decodes wireless signals from a 433 MHz receiver, extracting useful information from a thermostat’s transmission.
Check it out here: tiny.tt/explore-tt07-manches…
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
Last October 1-2, Pat Deegan led the two-day IEEE Open Silicon sponsored workshop in Panama City, as part of LACSS 2026.
41 participants completed their designs, which are now heading to fabrication!
A big thank you to the local volunteers who served as TAs.
Read the full story: tinytapeout.com/news/ieee-la…
Last October 1-2, Pat Deegan led the two-day IEEE Open Silicon sponsored workshop in Panama City, as part of LACSS 2026.
41 participants completed their designs, which are now heading to fabrication!
A big thank you to the local volunteers who served as TAs.
Read the full story: tinytapeout.com/news/ieee-la…
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
ThunderScopes are landing on benches everywhere!
Perfect timing: we just sat down with Aleksa to talk about why she built it, the analog front-end challenges, and why she makes open source hardware.
Watch it after your unboxing
youtu.be/NmcYOOgKZVs
Tiny Tapeout retweeted
What are people building with Tiny Tapeout? Every week, we spotlight a design from our community and share what it does, how it works, and why we think it’s cool.
This week, we're featuring a the classic Simon Says memory game by @UriShaked. You can build it on a breadboard, or play it online first via Wokwi.
Try it out and let us know what you think 👇
tiny.tt/explore-tt07-urish_s…
What if you could test your chip design on real hardware before tapeout? 😯
Presenting the Tiny Tapeout Lending Library!
Borrow an FPGA kit with Pmods for at least 3 months, test your digital designs, then pass it on to the next person.
tinytapeout.com/news/tt-lend…
These one-of-a-kind Tiny Tapeout x wafer.space breakout boards have 52 unique open-source designs on them!
Check out the behind the scenes of how they were made: crowdsupply.com/wafer-space/…
Will you be at the next 2026 @hackaday Superconference in Pasadena? You'll have a chance of getting your own breakout board!
Tickets available here: eventbrite.com/e/2026-hackad…
How is a chip built layer by layer inside the fab?
We look at the machines that deposit, etch and implant materials into the wafer, how photolithography ties it together, and how a MOSFET is built from scratch.
youtu.be/yS-mPFyqJWM
Learn how resistors, capacitors and MOSFETs work with the SiliWiz lessons: tinytapeout.com/siliwiz/
What are people building with Tiny Tapeout? Every week, we spotlight a design from our community and share what it does, how it works, and why we think it’s cool.
This week, we're featuring a the classic Simon Says memory game by @UriShaked. You can build it on a breadboard, or play it online first via Wokwi.
Try it out and let us know what you think 👇
tiny.tt/explore-tt07-urish_s…