Matthew Venn
9,622 posts
Matthew Venn
@matthewvenn
Engineer and Technology Communication. On a mission to make ASICs more accessible. YosysHQ & Tiny Tapeout founder member.
@mattvenn.net on blue sky
- Still can't quite believe I have a clock on my desk that is powered by a chip I designed!
- Interested in how electronics works at the silicon level? Maybe you've done some Arduino or PCB design but never found any good resources for microelectronics. With #SiliWiz, you can draw and simulate a MOSFET in your browser in less than 20 minutes! tinytapeout.com/guides/worksho…
- This looks like a pretty simple computer program right? Maybe a while loop, a delay and writing some data to an output port?
00:00 - Are you interested in a 2 hour lecture/workshop titled "0 to ASIC in 2 hours" ? Thinking of applying to @hackaday #remoticon. Feedback on my draft application appreciated! #asic docs.google.com/document/d/1Ul…
- I was surprised to hear that moving data is 6400 times more energy hungry than doing an operation in a CPU! That’s because the wires to move the data about are orders of magnitude longer than the wires in the ALU and are harder to wiggle up and down.
- I drew a CMOS inverter in magic and then simulated it in ngspice! Bring on the era of open silicon!
- Ever wanted to design your own microchip? #TinyTapeout 6 is now open for submissions! TT06 builds on TT05, with the same space, IOs and speed, but now adds power gating for all designs, mixed signal support and analog pins. tinytapeout.com
- #SiliWiz is finally publicly available! Try it here: app.siliwiz.com And make sure you take a look at the lessons: bit.ly/siliwiz-lesson
- .@securelyfitz that paper about dopant based hardware trojans is insane! Thanks for the recommendation! iacr.org/archive/ches20…
- My first paper has just been published in the IEEE solid state circuits magazine! Tiny Tapeout: A Shared Silicon Tapeout Platform Accessible To Everyone ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecent… If you're not a member, you can read the pre-print here: raw.githubusercontent.com/mattvenn/tt-ie…
- Looks like a sawtooth wave right? But this one is special! I designed the chip that creates it! Let's dig into how it works.
- #OpenSourceASIChighlight SOFA (Skywater Opensource FPGAs) are open-source FPGA IPs using the open-source Skywater 130nm PDK and OpenFPGA, an open-source FPGA IP generator for highly-customizable FPGA architectures. #ASIC #UofU github.com/lnis-uofu/SOFA
- How did this only get 16 likes?!
