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#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.

#615 – Augmented Engineering

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Dave and Chris discuss the impacts of AI on electronics design in the future. Also new chips, trade shows, and how to impress your boss.

#610 – Picking a Pick and Place Pickiness

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This week Dave discusses wanting to buy a Pick and Place and Chris doesn’t try to talk him out of it. Also low cost RISC V components, Supercon happenings, more on heat pumps, books about the grid, and more!

#598 – Best way to find a leak

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Dave and Chris discuss designing for high explosive environments, how to reverse engineer products, and the rise of RISC V in the semiconductor space.

#597 – Wow, Dave REALLY likes Top Gun

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This week we discuss hardware engineers moving to software, the impacts of funding on the chip industry, long term crowdfunding campaign, and why Top Gun is awesome.

Rube Goldbergs in Spaaaace

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Dave and Chris ring in the new year talking about connectors, high stress space missions, and new processors. Happy new year!

#547 – Open Source Mindset with Michael Gielda

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Michael Gielda of Antmicro returns to discuss open source methodology and the wide variety of projects they develop that feed back into the electronics ecosystem, including FPGA, AI, chip design and firmware projects.

#519 – Simulating Embedded Hardware with Michael Gielda

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Michael Gielda of Antmicro joins Chris to talk about simulating embedded hardware, from the microcontroller core all the way out to multiple units communicating on a mesh network (and beyond). Their open source tool (Renode) enables better firmware testing and more reliable systems.

#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.

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