Zero to ASIC Course

00:00 intro

00:56 z80

04:54 Submitted to TT07

06:52 NMOS

08:22 dynamic memory

10:28 z80 was everything in one chip

12:00 hand layout

14:10 most widely used CPU in the 80s

17:27 Tiny Tapeout compromise

18:56 voltage compatibility

19:58 Fits in 4 TT tiles

21:09 comparison table

22:47 What is Tiny Tapeout

24:28 next steps

26:29 bond pads

28:09 multicore z80

28:59 pricing

29:30 why not use an FPGA?

30:30 what to use for 1.8v core?

31:02 all the classics?

31:53 important to preserve the old chips

32:50 the plan

35:19 how can you help?

* Carsten’s background and interest in analog circuit design

* Open-source silicon and its benefits vs. challenges

* Analog design tools evolution

* Obstacles that hinder wider adoption of open-source silicon tools

* Advice on approaching an analog design journey

Talking about the minimal fab with Leo Moser. Leo recently won a competition run by minimal fab and had a design fabricated.He's published a few blog posts about it here:
About the Minimal Fab: https://mole99.uber.space/2023/Minimal_Fab/About%20Minimal%20Fab%20and%20the%20ICPS%20PDK.html NAND tutorial: https://mole99.uber.space/2024/NAND_tutorial/Design%20of%20a%20NAND%20gate%20using%20the%20ICPS%20PDK.html

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00:00 Intro

00:10 TT boards

00:51 TT04 closes on Friday 8th

01:09 ORConf https://orconf.org/

01:21 Wuthering Bytes

01:53 FSiC videos released https://peertube.f-si.org/video-chann...

02:04 Hackaday Supercon 2023

02:19 YUG2 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yosysh...

02:36 Silicon news - MPW3 and 2206

03:37 IHP workshop videos    • Introduction FMD-QNC project status a...  

04:04 IHP cleanroom video footage

Interviews with:
Luca Alloatti Thomas Benz Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen Thomas Parry Rene Scholz Dan Fritchman Harald Pretl

Website: https://monster6502.com/ & visual 6502 http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html

Eric's socials: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS & https://mastodon.social/@tubetime

Other interviews: https://theamphour.com/609-open-circuits-with-eric-schlaepfer-and-windell-oskay/ & https://unnamedre.com/episode/58

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13243

00:00 Intro

01:21 Hardware security

02:54 How long have they been using AI to generate Verilog

05:26 Methodology

17:40 Humans in the loop

21:21 Some designs already taped out on TinyTapeout 3

26:49 How to contact

For TinyTapeout 3, Harald Pretl made an analog temperature sensor out of digital standard cells. In this interview he explains how he did it.

Jeremy Birch implemented a custom STA timing setup for Tiny Tapeout 3. In this interview we discuss his background, what we needed the check and the results.