Rest in peace Z80, long live the open source Z80!
00:00 intro
00:56 z80
04:54 Submitted to TT07
06:52 NMOS
08:22 dynamic memory
10:28 z80 was everything in one chip
12:00 hand layout
14:10 most widely used CPU in the 80s
17:27 Tiny Tapeout c…00:37:38 |
Mon 13 May 2024
Analog Philosophy - interview with Nordic’s principal IC scientist Carsten Wulff
* Carsten’s background and interest in analog circuit design
* Open-source silicon and its benefits vs. challenges
* Analog design tools evolution
* Obstacles that hinder wider adoption of open-sou…
00:30:46 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Chips in days with Minimal Fab - An interview with Leo Moser
Talking about the minimal fab with Leo Moser. Leo recently won a competition run by minimal fab and had a design fabricated.
He's published a few blog posts about it here:
About the Minimal Fab: https…
00:24:25 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
An interview with Ed Conway - Silicon Supply Chains
Follow Ed here: https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky
Buy his book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
Sign up to my newsletter here: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/news...
00:34:45 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
September open source silicon news update - Tiny Tapeout, Conferences, Silicon bringup & more!
00:00 Intro
00:10 TT boards
00:51 TT04 closes on Friday 8th
01:09 ORConf https://orconf.org/
01:21 Wuthering Bytes
01:53 FSiC videos released https://peertube.f-si.org/video-chann...
02:04 Hackad…
00:04:33 |
Tue 05 Sep 2023
Interviews from the Free Silicon Conference, Paris, 2023
Interviews with:
Luca Alloatti
Thomas Benz
Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen
Thomas Parry
Rene Scholz
Dan Fritchman
Harald Pretl
00:21:36 |
Wed 19 Jul 2023
The MOnSter 6502 - how Eric Schlaepfer built a 6502 processor out of discrete transistors
Website: https://monster6502.com/ & visual 6502 http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
Eric's socials: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS & https://mastodon.social/@tubetime
Other interviews: https:/…
00:50:34 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
First chip designed with ChatGPT? An interview with Dr. Hammond Pearce & Jason Blocklove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13243
00:00 Intro
01:21 Hardware security
02:54 How long have they been using AI to generate Verilog
05:26 Methodology
17:40 Humans in the loop
21:21 Some designs alre…
00:27:33 |
Mon 12 Jun 2023
Analog ASIC design with digital standard cells!
For TinyTapeout 3, Harald Pretl made an analog temperature sensor out of digital standard cells. In this interview he explains how he did it.
439:07:01 |
Mon 15 May 2023
Jeremy Birch on Tiny Tapeout's static timing analysis
Jeremy Birch implemented a custom STA timing setup for Tiny Tapeout 3. In this interview we discuss his background, what we needed the check and the results.
672:48:21 |
Mon 15 May 2023
using X-rays to make 3D images of chips with Tomas Aidukas
using X-rays to make 3D images of chips with Tomas Aidukas
00:26:51 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
Jorge Marín - DC / DC converter design and the IEEE chipathon
Jorge Marín - DC / DC converter design and the IEEE chipathon
00:36:04 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
A look back at 2022 and what I'm looking forward to in 2023
A look back at 2022 and what I'm looking forward to in 2023
00:15:41 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
September news update: MPW7 & 2, GDS renders, new videos & more!
MPW7: https://zerotoasiccourse.com/post/mpw7_submitted/
MPW2: https://groups.google.com/g/skywater-pdk-announce/c/HelusBBUZ20
Efabless Job: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3293645910/?refId=BA5W…
00:04:30 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
July news & Free Silicon Conference 2022 (FSiC22)
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2022
00:00 Intro
01:04 Charles Papon
05:18 Tristan Gingold
09:10 Staf Verhaegen
11:30 Naohiko Shimizu
16:38 Tim Edwards
20:46 Harald Pretl
21:40 Mirjana Videnovi…
00:26:29 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Crafting open source standard cell libraries with James Stine
00:00 Intro
03:05 Teo's work on optimising adders
04:35 Proppy's work with Jupyter notebooks
05:32 Open source is the key to innovation
07:51 GF180
08:10 When teaching the design of standard cell lib…
00:35:28 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
May news update - MPW6, fast adders, Google's new portal, Free silicon conference, FIB edit
Teo's adders: https://github.com/mattvenn/instrumented_adder
MPW6 walkthrough: https://youtu.be/MNuoYz_MM-c
https://developers.google.com/silicon
Free silicon conference: https://wiki.f-si.org/index.…
00:04:16 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
April news update - sky130 on Google colab, optimising adders, $100 tapeout, events and MPW2 wafers
00:00 intro
00:13 moving pictures
00:29 Proppy put sky130 into google colab notebooks: https://colab.research.google.com/gist/proppy/964fa4b9277c3baf9e731872bbad93e4/zerotoasic_project1_1.ipynb#scrol…
00:06:19 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Interview with Dinesh A - Riscduino
Interview with Dinesh A - Riscduino
00:00 Intro
00:45 about Dinesh
02:39 Aim of Riscduino
04:50 Aim to be pin compatible and with support of compiler and libraries
06:10 Join the project - Dinesh is looki…
00:27:32 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
February news update!
MPW1 lives, chip scans, epoxy, Efabless, CLEAR FPGA, Makercast & hackchat
00:04:47 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
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