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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 7d

I really want
@mith.ro 's wafer.space silicon manufacturing shuttles to succeed and continue to be available, so I was trying to brainstorm some retro-computer/console chips which may be viable.
Most can be done on FPGA today, but custom silicon could make assembly cheaper (reducing FPGA support).

wafer.space - Budget silicon manufacturing.

Create integrated circuits without breaking the bank!

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OSH Park @oshpark.bsky.social · 10d

Live now! Join @crowdsupply.bsky.social @helenleigh.bsky.social for a conversation with Tim Ansell (@mith.ro) about @wafer.space, a new way for chip designers to easily turn a design into real, working chips: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOm...
#OpenHardware #OSHW #OpenSilicon #OpenPDK

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 10d

5m until we are live @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOm...

Teardown Session 56: wafer.space with Tim Ansell & Leo Moser

YouTube video by Crowd Supply

www.youtube.com

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wafer.space @wafer.space · 10d

This live stream starts in a few hours!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

It was the first time we enabled 4 tile high designs, enabling a monster crowd sourced RISC-V microcontroller competition called Asteroid. At 60k standard cells, this is the biggest design so far on Tiny Tapeout.

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

495 TinyQV 'Asteroids' - Crowdsourced Risc-V SoC - Tiny Tapeout

A Risc-V SoC with peripherals from the Tiny Tapeout Risc-V challenge, codename 'Asteroids'

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

And finally here’s a cool current steering DAC that’s designed to drive a VGA monitor by Anton - good to see your mixed signal skills evolving Anton!

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

524 Analog VGA CSDAC experiments - Tiny Tapeout

Current switching matrix DAC implementations for analog VGA displays

tinytapeout.com

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

It’s great to see people using our service to test bigger mixed signal designs like OpenRAM. In this test, Jesse put a tiny 16x32 RAM inside a 4 tile digital design.

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

454 Single Port OpenRAM Testchip - Tiny Tapeout

Testchip of single port SRAM macro using two phase clocking

tinytapeout.com

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

We have our first commissioned art from @bleeptrack.de , “Cross Stitch Creatures” - the first of 4 in a series exploring silicon art.

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

871 Cross stitch Creatures #2 - Tiny Tapeout

generative pattern creatures using silicon cross stitch

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

Mitch Altman has long inspired us, and as a tribute we included an ASIC version of his classic TV-B-Gone universal off button for TVs. We also took the opportunity to test Sylvain Munalt’s ROM.

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

462 TV-B-Gone-EU (ROM Macro variant) - Tiny Tapeout

TV-B-Gone shuts down many TVs by sending IR codes

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

Inspired by Peter Kinget, we commissioned Andrew Kang to create a Mini MOSBius especially for us. The idea is to enable analog designers to get faster feedback on their circuit designs with an analog FPGA.

tinytapeout.com/chips/ttsky2...

490 mini mosbius - Tiny Tapeout

a mosbius style chip in a 3x2 tt slot

tinytapeout.com

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

We just packed 237 of your projects into our most packed ASIC to date and submitted it for manufacture. Let’s take a look inside…

floorplan of the latest TT ASIC multi project chip

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 12d

Send me an email to [email protected] and we can see if we can make something work!

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 12d

Guess it is time to finally finish the USB-C Fomu version :-)

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 16d

@mith.ro is on the current episode of The Amp Hour, for another general-access chip manufacturing option. Give the podcast a listen, and think about the possibilities of making your own small-run chips !

theamphour.com/703-building...

#703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

Tim 'Mithro' Ansell returns to The Amp Hour to discuss his new Singapore based wafer sharing service called wafer.space. Now that Efabless is no more, this venture will aim to make silicon even more a...

theamphour.com

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 12d

Leo Moser and myself will be on @crowdsupply.bsky.social 's Teardown Session talking with @helenleigh.bsky.social about
@wafer.space this Thursday (3rd October) - youtu.be/tEOmnN8IAjs

Teardown Session 56: wafer.space with Tim Ansell

YouTube video by Crowd Supply

youtu.be

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 17d

What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:

theamphour.com/703-building...

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KiCad EDA @kicad.org · 17d

100% legit. @nextpcb.bsky.social are wonderful supporters of the KiCad project and we will be making a blog post about this new OSHW site soon

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 17d

Did you say that has an iCE40 on it?

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Mike Bell @rebelmike.bsky.social · 17d

Well, it blinks.

The whole you have to unplug it from your computer and plug it into an SD card slot that doesn’t act as an SD host to run the design thing may get old rather quickly.

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 17d

My company wafer.space is but I am not. I will be visiting Singapore on 7th -> 10th Oct.

wafer.space - Budget silicon manufacturing.

Create integrated circuits without breaking the bank!

wafer.space

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wafer.space @wafer.space · 17d

@mith.ro was interviewed by @chrisgammell.bsky.social about the @wafer.space service!

Find out more at wafer.space!

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 17d

It was awesome to be on @chrisgammell.bsky.social 's Amp Hour podcast again. Find out more about my latest endeavor to make custom silicon manufacturing accessible and follow @wafer.space and bookmark wafer.space to keep up to date!

Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 17d

What happens when one of the main providers that enables #opensource #silicon to thrive...shuts down? Companies like @mith.ro's new wafer.space jump in and offer an even more compelling option. $7K for 1000 chips on the GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process. Learn more:

theamphour.com/703-building...

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · Sep 11

Depends on the demand. I would like to get to once a month but once a quarter will probably be the initial frequency.

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · Mar 24

Want to watch a live bringup of @tinytapeout.com 's first test chip with IHP?

I'm cancelling my #open #source #silicon #stream and leaving the stage for Sylvain Munaut!

He starts streaming shortly here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=indh...

TinyTapeout IHP 0.1 - Silicon Bringup time

YouTube video by Sylvain Munaut

www.youtube.com

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aki-nyan //nullptr::live @aki.lethalbit.net · Sep 10

"Which PCIe Specifications do you have open right now?"

Yes.

A screenshot of the top bar of the Okular PDF reader showing 13 open PDFs, the first ones are PCIe 1.1/2.1/3/4/5/6/6.2/6.4/7 then one is the PCIe 1.1 errata and the last few are variants on the PIPE spec

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