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#672 – Silicon Revolution with Matt Venn

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Matt Venn returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the successes (and learnings) from many additional runs of TinyTapeout, a shared project service sitting on top of a multi product wafer service. Matt also talks about a forthcoming analog ASIC design class on Zero to Asic, his online course.

#616 – Open Source Tapeout with Matthew Venn

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Matthew Venn of the Zero To Asic course returns to The Amp Hour to talk about what has been happening in the world of Open Source Silicon, both the tools that make things go and the projects that people are creating.

#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.

#455 – Bill and Dave’s Excellent Equipment

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This week Chris and Dave talk about various bits of test equipment, long lead time parts and the importance of user interface when interacting with critical devices.

#389 – Sipping Coulombs

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Dave and Chris discuss debunking theories, designing low power systems and creating art for conferences.

#228 – An Interview with Shahriar from The Signal Path – Quisquous Quivering Quadripole

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Shahriar from The Signal Path joins us to talk about millimeter wave ASIC design, Bell Labs, video blogging, test gear, the learning process and human nature.

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