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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 1d

Switched to kagi months ago and it's way better

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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 1d

The Entire Process of Building an Open Source Analog ASIC

Hackaday Article

hackaday.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 1d

Happy “Cal Professor gets a Nobel Prize” Day. The second in a week. We're gonna have to build a bigger on-campus reserved parking lot for our Nobel Laureates.

Also 🧵 "Six of nine Nobel Laureates so far this year have been American based, half of whom immigrated to the US."

Nobel Prize medal that has been Photoshopped to replace Nobel's head with the head of Oski, the mascot of the University of California, Berkeley. The wording on the medal has also been changed to "Oski Nobel."

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Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 1d

My coffee table book, Open Circuits, with beautiful cross-section photos of electronics, is 25% off through the 12th. Use the super-secret discount code "SHOWOFF". What, you already have the book? BAM--you just thought of a friend who would enjoy a copy.

nostarch.com/open-circuits

two images of a small cathode ray tube. the upper image shows that it is nearly as small as a ball-point pen, starting out at the same diameter but flaring out into a tiny screen that is about 10mm in diameter. the bottom image shows the same CRT cut in half, with a complex array of small metal electron lenses.

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 1d

Going live in about 90 minutes!

TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 2d

Who won our #RISCV peripheral competition? Don't miss the live announcement tomorrow at 19:00 CEST!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEW...

Live: Announcing the Tiny Tapeout RISC-V competition winners!

YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

www.youtube.com

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 2d

Who won our #RISCV peripheral competition? Don't miss the live announcement tomorrow at 19:00 CEST!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEW...

Live: Announcing the Tiny Tapeout RISC-V competition winners!

YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

www.youtube.com

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 3d

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 3d

PDK is the #ASIC terminology of the week!
In the last month, PDK has been the 1st most popular out of 42 terms.

PDK

PDK is the ASIC terminology of the week!

www.zerotoasiccourse.com

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 4d

Loving 'bee speaker' by @aptshadow.bsky.social , reminds me how much I enjoyed the first 2 books. Looking forward to rereading them after this!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 6d

Announcing the RISC-V competition winners on a livestream, Wednesday 8th!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEW...

#RISCV #TinyTapeout

Live: Announcing the Tiny Tapeout RISC-V competition winners!

YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

www.youtube.com

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell @mith.ro · 10d

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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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 8d

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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YosysHQ @yosyshq.com · 21d

We are hiring! Both technical and admin, please take a look at our jobs page!

www.yosyshq.com/jobs

#jobs #hire

Jobs

Employee Profile: Synthesis or Formal Verification Developer at YosysHQ You might know YosysHQ from our many Open Source EDA Projects. We are the maintainers of Yosys and the accompanying Open Source ...

www.yosyshq.com

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 10d

Padring is the #ASIC terminology of the week!
In the last month, Padring has been the 9th most popular out of 42 terms.

Padring

Padring is the ASIC terminology of the week!

www.zerotoasiccourse.com

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Bruno Levy @brunolevy01.bsky.social · 17d

Teaching processor design at Telecom Nancy
Lesson 1: build your own risc-V processor at home using a FPGA
Course notes are here:
github.com/BrunoLevy/le...

Title slide: "adventures with FPGAs", with a composite background made of photos of FPGAs and peripherals

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YosysHQ @yosyshq.com · 10d

Our next #YUG will be with Matt Young, talking about triple modular redundancy.

Join us at 18:00 CET / 22:30 IST / 09:00 PT on Thursday 9th October.

Sign up to our mailing list to get a reminder before the event: blog.yosyshq.com/newsletter/

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Chris Gammell @chrisgammell.bsky.social · 14d

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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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 17d

Sat solvers for open source formal verification?

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 17d

Node is the #ASIC terminology of the week!
In the last month, Node has been the 12th most popular out of 42 terms.

Node

Node is the ASIC terminology of the week!

www.zerotoasiccourse.com

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 20d

github.com/azonenberg/p...

GitHub - azonenberg/pcb-checklist: Sign-off review checklist for PCB designs

Sign-off review checklist for PCB designs. Contribute to azonenberg/pcb-checklist development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 20d

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• 404 Media
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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 21d

Our chips look the best, no competition!

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Jan @jangray.bsky.social · 23d

Check out the fantastic open source hardware hacker content from this weekend’s ORCONF’25!
fossi-foundation.org/orconf/2025?...
HT/thanks @mattvenn.net

ORConf 2025: September 12-14, 2025 in Valencia, Spain

The ORConf conference is a weekend of presentations and networking dedicated to free and open source silicon. It's an event for the open source semiconductor community, and is run by volunteers from t...

fossi-foundation.org

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Matt Venn @mattvenn.net · 23d

expore the 3D view of the design here: gds-viewer.tinytapeout.com?model=https:...

TinyTapeout GDS Viewer

gds-viewer.tinytapeout.com