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Make Your Own Chips for Free

by obl on 5/29/22, 5:25 PM with 92 comments

  • by ttul on 5/29/22, 7:09 PM

    This is a fantastic program for teaching students about VHDL. You can make some really cool stuff on a 130nm process with 10mm^2 available. Like a full toy SoC. Really cool.
  • by FollowingTheDao on 5/29/22, 9:34 PM

    I was very upset this was not about making Potato Chips. Seriously.
  • by f0e4c2f7 on 5/29/22, 7:31 PM

    Schedule

        April 11, 2022: Project submission is OPEN
        June 8, 2022: Project submission is CLOSED
  • by bjt2n3904 on 5/29/22, 6:26 PM

    > The repo must include project documentation and adhere to Google's inclusive language guidelines. See details here.

    "Inclusive". Ah.

    When I'm writing technical documentation, it has one goal: to describe the project to anyone who wants to use it. "Inclusivity" is not a part of my goalset.

  • by Sirened on 5/30/22, 3:04 AM

    Does anyone have any in sight into how often they do these shuttles? Probably going to miss tapeout for this round but it'd be cool to get a physical chip some day, just for coolness.
  • by DaviNunes on 5/29/22, 6:56 PM

    I wonder how difficult/efficient would it be to use this tech to design a bitcoin mining ASIC.
  • by ramshanker on 5/29/22, 10:00 PM

    So how many transistors ( or GATES? ) that 10mm^2 is at 130nm?
  • by sideshowb on 5/29/22, 6:42 PM

    Money for nothing...