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Dave and Chris talk through custom silicon, old Tek videos, prototyping boards, electric vehicles, and more.
#602 – Rigorous engineering stuff may be out the window
#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.
#414 – An Interview with Scotty Allen (Strangeparts)
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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.
#361 – An Interview with Ken Shirriff
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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.
#303 – An Interview with Dmitry Nedospasov
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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.
#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!
#270 – An Interview With Dafydd Roche
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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.
#261 – Recycle All Your Microcontrollers
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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.
#169 – An Interview with Vincent Himpe – Escaped Electron Elocution
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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.