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This week Chris and Dave discuss EV charging, chip fabs, manufacturing, large airliners, power storage, and more!
#666 – Good Energy Citizen
#578 – Histogrammic or Histomagraphical
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This week Dave and Chris talk about computer history, chip building news, sourcing parts from the Chinese chip ecosystem, test equipment, and tin whiskers!
#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.
#390 – An Interview with Sam Zeloof
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Sam Zeloof is making chips in his garage for fun with a homespun semiconductor fab. He tells Chris about what inspired him to learn and build and how the process works
#297 – An Interview with Jake Baker
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Jake Baker is a chip designer and educator at UNLV. He tells us all about DRAM, Flash, ReRAM, low level design and lots more silicon goodness!
#52 – An Interview with Jeri Ellsworth – Carnassial Chip Chemicals
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Jeri Ellsworth returns to talk home made chips, software defined radios, companies giving the warm fuzzies and how not to spill HF acid.