Two Weeks Until Tapeout
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Two Weeks Until Tapeout
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#2> So when the opportunity arose to join an experimental shuttle using global foundries 180nm for FREE I jumped onto the opportunity and designed my own JTAG!
In case anyone wants a preview of what to expect.
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#3The thing I love about blog posts like these is how it reminds me that the tech world is a vast ocean that encompasses so many disciplines; it's not all full stack web development.
Related: I did not understand 95% of what she wrote.
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#4> So when the opportunity arose to join an experimental shuttle using global foundries 180nm for FREE I jumped onto the opportunity and designed my own JTAG! In case anyone wants a preview of what to expect.
> Because the official JTAG spec lives behind the impregnable IEEE paywall, a castle in which I am not permitted to set foot as a result of not having paid its lord my dues, the verification of the JTAG TAP was actually quite interesting.
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#5Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many of the tools involved in the Tiny Tapeout project are available open source?
Especially in the project roadmap section..
The licences for proprietary EDA tools are very expensive it seems and most EDA people i talked to didn't really care for any open source tools - as their companies paid for the licenses.
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#6Out of curiosity, does anyone know how many of the tools involved in the Tiny Tapeout project are available open source? Especially in the project roadmap section.. The licences for proprietary EDA tools are very expensive it seems and most EDA people i talked to didn't really care for any open source tools - as their companies paid for the licenses.
You can do the entire project roadmap with entirely open source tools and all the tiny tapeout tools are open source.
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#9The thing I love about blog posts like these is how it reminds me that the tech world is a vast ocean that encompasses so many disciplines; it's not all full stack web development. Related: I did not understand 95% of what she wrote.
I wrote here a couple days ago: "For a Hacker News degenerate, everything in the world revolves around bean-counting B2B SaaS CRUD crapps, but it doesn't mean it's all there is to the world, right?"
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#10> aka: For those not living in 2026, we have uncovered a new clue to the mystery of where all the low-power DRAM chips have suddenly vanished to!
I love the writing style!