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#501 – Discussing the Open Source PDK with Tim Ansell

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.

#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!

#473 – An Interview with Greg Davill

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Greg Davill returns to The Amp Hour to talk with Chris about his wide range of projects, such as the Arctic Koala, Orange Crab and Icosahedron LED sculpture. He also talks about his soldering technique and tools, in addition to his recent travel to events like Chaos Congress in Germany.

#469 – An Interview with Craig J Bishop

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Craig Bishop joins Chris to talk about a custom gaming platform built on the Xilinx Zynq, how he uses autorouters to connect chips at packaging facilities, and using more software to build hardware.

#468 – The Tiny Lab Movement

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Dave and Chris discuss downsized labs, flex PCBs, arsonist robots, PCB manufacturing, FPGA practicality and a lot more!

#467 – Stories from Supercon 2019

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Chris talks with 3 different guests about FPGAs and open source toolchains at the Hackaday Superconference 2019. Guests include Jereon “Sprite_tm” Domburg, Sylvain “tnt” Munaut and Matt Venn.

#466 – An Interview with Ryan Cousins

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Ryan Cousins is a founder and CEO of Krtkl. He talks with Chris about the Snickerdoodle, an FPGA + SOC platform, which allows users to easily design high complexity FPGA products using a pluggable board topology. Listen to the struggles with crowdfunding, building a software and hardware platform, and how FPGAs are being used by companies throughout the world.