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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.
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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…
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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…
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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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The Calma GDS II computer-aided design workstation in 1984.
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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
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My son Kian was only nine years old when he made his first @tinytapeout asic design.
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
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Your daily dose of ASICs. Open source FPGA, after an open source software stack, the next frontier is silicon. This board was made by Leo Moser (not me), and manufactured through wafer.space on the Global Foundries 180nm node. And it works. 1/2
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Check my recent talk at FOSSi ORConf! I spoke about chips on boards and in space, interactive visualisation tools, growth in the community and some exciting future projects - including some awesome new packaging! youtu.be/95unqpAZPeM
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Forget simulation - watch me build and speed up a circuit on silicon, live! I'm using Mini MOSbius - it's like an FPGA but for analog. youtu.be/NM5cLWYWqG0
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Replying to @saranormous
Working on some content right now about modern open source RTL-to-tapeout (LibreLane/OpenRoad)! But would love to read about the proprietary systems too! There's not much out there, folks would benefit from being exposed to more chip content imo 🙂
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Georgous chips from IHP! This chip has a RISCV by @splinedrive , an Atari 2600 and a LGN hand-written digit classifier by @__ReJ__ , and some original silicon artwork by @Bleeptrack For all the details: tinytapeout.com/chips/ttihp2… #ASIC #opensource #silicon #TinyTapeout
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And then the fun part started: debugging the actual chip. 😅 Full story bitbangingbytes.substack.com…
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Diseño de un transistor MOSFET-N en Magic, con tecnología Sky130 de Skywater. Practicando lo aprendido en el curso #TinyTapeout de @matthewvenn github.com/Obijuan/Learn-ope…
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