The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
A weekly show about the trends in the electronic industry.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
James Adams and Liam Fraser of the Raspberry Pi hardware team once again join Chris to talk about the RP1 custom silicon on the Raspberry Pi 5
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Dave and Chris talk through custom silicon, old Tek videos, prototyping boards, electric vehicles, and more.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Scotty Allen travels the world documenting technology stories while learning new skills. He sits down with Chris in LA to talk about building iPhones, living in Shenzhen and The Engineers Journey.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Ken Shirriff joins Chris and Dave to talk about vintage computer rebuilds, peering at 1970s silicon on die and using reverse engineering to figure things out.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
Dmitry Nedospasov is a full time hardware hacker and security researcher. He tells us about how to get into the silicon and learn all about what’s going on under the hood of devices.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
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!
