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#503 – Fabless Chip Design with Mohamed Kassem

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Mohamed Kassem, CTO of eFabless, joins Chris to talk about using the OpenLANE tool flow to build custom silicon for the newly announced open source PDK from Google and Skywater. He also describes how and why someone might want their own ASIC and the dropping costs of creating one.

#501 – Discussing the Open Source PDK with Tim Ansell

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Tim ‘Mithro’ Ansell of Google talks to Chris about the recently announced open source PDK released by Skywater (a silicon fab) and Google. Also discussions around the implications of open source silicon and how listeners can get their ASIC designs fabbed for free.

#499 – Discussing Chiplets with Ming Zhang

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Ming Zhang, co-founder and CEO of zGlue, joins Chris to talk about connecting chiplets together to create bespoke integrated circuits, which are much smaller and more power efficient than if placed in original packaging.

#498 – Quantum Computing with Andrea Morello

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Andrea Morello, Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering at the University of New South Wales (Australia), joins Dave to talk about the state of the art of quantum computing.

#497 – An Interview with Brock LaMeres

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Brock LaMeres, a professor at Montana State University, joins Chris to talk about distance learning, embedded systems, designing redundant processors for space missions, engineering education, and lots more!

#495 – An Interview with Eric Klein

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Eric Klein of Lemnos Labs–a hardware focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco–joins Chris to talk about the future of hardware investing and exciting new opportunities for hardware startups.

#492 – More Electronics Consultant Impedance Matching

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A second episode devoted to electronics design consulting. It features consultants Alex Klimaj, Jeremiah Gillis, Kieran O’Leary and (host) Chris Gammell.

#490 – An Interview with Ben Heck(endorn)

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Ben Heckendorn AKA Ben Heck joins Dave to talk about gaming, building pinball machines, speaking at Maker Faire and building things every week for many years for The Ben Heck Show YouTube channel.

#489 – An Interview with Jack Ganssle (2nd)

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Jack Ganssle returns to The Amp Hour 8.5 years later to follow up on how microcontrollers and embedded programming has changed and to talk about some of his favorite tools for building great firmware.

#487 – An Interview with Kerry Scharfglass

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This week Kerry Scharfglass (@borgel) joins Chris to talk about designing consumer electronics and how things change as you move towards smaller companies. Also #Badgelife, war games with hardware, KiCad, creating solar infrastructure and more!

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