Show notes
Welcome back, Matt Venn of the Zero to Asic Course and Tiny Tapeout!
(Due to illness and some life stuff happening, my recording setup was crap. Apologies. I also leaned heavily on Matt’s notes, so some of the following links will be out of order. Think of it like an ad hoc scavenger hunt…fun!)
- Matt was last on the show on episode 616, about 18 months ago
- Tiny Tapeout has continued, now working on it’s 8th run. the 5th run is shipping soon.
- Uri Shaked made Wokwi compatible with making chip designs and then compiling them to verilog for later processing by open source tools
- 12 bit SAR ADC on TT07
- linux capable riscv
- Analog ASIC design with digital standard cells!
- We had previously posted Matt’s review of 2023 and aims for 2024
- Siliwiz
- ASIC inside synchrotron
- Touring IHP (Germany) facilities
- Interview with Nordic Semi designer
- People are building analog structures on Tiny Tapeout
- There’s a new course on Zero to Asic that will be about Analog (sign up for the waitlist)
- There are some new tools being developed
- surfer – browser based waveform
- moosic – logic locking plugin for yosys
- eqy – formal equivalence checking
- Matt will be doing a TT workshop at supercon 2024
- TT08 will have a demoscene competition – VGA and sound output – what’s the coolest thing you can fit in 1 tile? You have until Sept 6th 2024 to submit!
- Not discussed, but on the list and interesting!