The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
A weekly show about the trends in the electronic industry.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Dafydd Roche of TI and ExpatAudio talks about how to develop audio chips, learning pick and place to understand customer woes and the deeply held beliefs of audiophiles/phools.
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This week we discuss the implications of designing lots of electronics, how to sell your projects, automated installation of platforms, explaining electronics without math and utilizing microcontrollers everywhere.
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Vincent Himpe joins Chris and Dave for a 3+ hour conversation about his journey from early hobbyist to staff engineer at a multinational semiconductor company.
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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.
