Notices by Matt Venn (matthewvenn@chaos.social)

I just booted uLinux on #TinyTapeout 6!

Very easy to use flashing tool by Uri made it easy to test Hirosh's SoC!

Also big thanks to @mike & @mole99 for the PMOD we're using with designs that need external memory.

#ASIC #opensource #RISCV

An alternative to packaging chips is to do 'chip on board', where you glue the die down and then wire bond it to the PCB.

We just tried this with one of my Zero to ASIC course ASICs, and it worked!

https://youtu.be/XJmWoBJjvlI

#ASIC #opensource

It’s become a cliche, but hardware is hard! One reason why hardware is harder than software is that the time between revisions is often longer. We need to wait for new PCBs, or for components to be delivered. Or for more new PCBs after we realise we got it wrong!

My first paper has just been published in the IEEE solid state circuits magazine!

Tiny Tapeout: A Shared Silicon Tapeout Platform Accessible To Everyone

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563670

If you're not a member, you can read the pre-print here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattvenn/tt-ieee-paper/main/paper_TT.pdf

@mntmn you coming to hackaday berlin again?

This looks like a pretty simple computer program right? Maybe a while loop, a delay and writing some data to an output port?

@mntmn I've been recommended https://runzemetal.m.en.alibaba.com/index.html

@mntmn wah. Got any recommendations for alu CNC milling and anodizing? I 'm about to get about 20 small parts made

I'm Matt, pretty new here 👋 Who should I follow?

I'm into #science #communication and open source #EDA, #software #tools to design hardware like #PCB, #FPGA and #ASIC.

I'll mostly be posting about that as it's my full time job too! 👍

Check my websites for more infos:

- https://mattvenn.net/
- https://zerotoasiccourse.com
- https://tinytapeout.com

I also like making #electronic #music 🎵🎵 without computers 😅

https://youtu.be/sob0J4UzKY8