Adventures in semiconductors and space Founder and CEO of @Spherical_Sys

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Joined July 2021
Modern aerospace is held hostage by semiconductors.
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Yet there are opportunities - historic government semiconductor funding - growing open-source silicon movement - modern software that must eat the archaic semiconductor tools.
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The time is now. We must fundamentally rebuild the electronic tech-stack for society's most important industries.
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The sunday sun is shining, time to assemble some satellite electronics – at Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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The meme that European space lacks "vision" is false. European space lacks execution, the ability to follow-through on the ideas at the speed and scale that we see elsewhere. There is no shortage of world changing ideas coming from Europe - it's the doing part we struggle with.
If they had line of sight to the solution, then by definition, it wasn't vision they lacked. They had that. It's execution that they lacked.
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Ben from my favourite podcast @AcquiredFM showing the understated importance of analog semiconductors. Let's stop sleeping on analog and start building more.
Today I learned that Texas Instruments is worth more than Intel, Qualcomm, or AMD. 🤯 Everyone sleeps on analog. h/t @jbathgate
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Thomas Parry of ESA BIC incubatee SPHERICAL is using emerging techniques at the microchip level to create satellite systems powered by silicon. 🛰️ Read our interview with Thomas: bit.ly/ESABIC-Spherical-inte… #ESABIC #SBIC #SpaceBusiness #Startup #OpenSourceSilicon #SatelliteOnAChip
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I thoroughly enjoyed this simultaneously humorous and enlightening piece from @0x000E open.substack.com/pub/manage…
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Si2 (of OpenAccess) indirectly says that the democratization of chip design should be performed by further consolidating behind existing industry powers. Yeah sure... embedded.com/dac-2022-panel-…
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"We should also bring order to the chaos through the collaborative membership model."
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Thomas Parry retweeted
T-4 days to SISDR-UG Event 3, save the date!! We have a really exciting line up of speakers for this event. #DoAliensUseGR🤔 #RealMenRunGRonNokia1100 #SoftwareDefinedRadio #GNURadio
I've got the TUDelft Space program up and running as a promising option for open-source 3D capacitance (and resistance) extraction of ICs
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