Zero to ASIC Course
Interviews and news from the world of Open Source Silicon, ASICs and Semiconductors.
ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Interviews and news from the world of Open Source Silicon, ASICs and Semiconductors.
Category
Episodes
43
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Hosted
Language
English
Started
11 Mar, 2021
Created by
Matt Venn
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Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon. An interview with Matthew Gill
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A deep dive into radiation, bit flips, orbital hot spots, and what it really takes for silicon to survive in low Earth orbit.
Follow Matthew Gill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/42-matthew-gill/
00:00 Intro 01:30 Matthew is a nuclear engineer 02:26 How do you test without going to orbit? 07:01 How does a bit flip happen? 09:00 What does a hardened PDK and tooling look like? 11:31 ESD testing 14:15 RP2040 on HUNITY 19:39 What is LEO like? 23:35 Building a sensor to measure these effects 25:22 Open source silicon intersecting with space 30:26 What kind of shielding could we add? 33:54 Van Allen belts 39:18 Error detection 41:28 Wafer variability 44:05 Managing thermals 49:44 Thanks19 Jan, 2026Get started with Analog - Interview with Nanik Adnani.
Matt Venn
take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...Kelly Heaton's analog birds: https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/dee...
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00:00 Intro 00:55 Nanik Adnani 01:52 Why analog 03:46 Horizontal vs Vertical IP block s09:20 Advice for getting into industry 11:20 Analog Birds by Kelly Heaton 15:30 Guitar Distortion Pedal on Tiny Tapeout 17:50 The schematic isn't the hard part 20:51 130nm isn't as far from 7nm as you think 23:07 Do a Tiny Tapeout!04 Nov, 2025Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview with Tibor Herman and Pat Deegan
Matt Venn
Tibor's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...Tiny Tapeout 6: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt06/Test code repository: https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic...Chat on the discord: https://tinytapeout.com/discordSign up for the newsletter: https://tinytapeout.com/#sign-up
00:00 Intro 00:21 Tibor Bio 02:31 HUNITY 05:41 Previous missions 10:34 What orbit will it fly in? 17:09 Solar Panel Deployment 19:21 Mission Goals 24:07 Inside HUNITY 34:42 Tiny Tapeout integration 41:58 How to get involved 43:17 Communications 44:34 Sponsors 46:19 Vibration tests 48:30 Picking up the signals04 Nov, 2025MOSbius - A field programmable transistor array for chip designers - interview with Peter Kinget
Matt Venn
Zero to ASIC course - https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/
MOSbius - https://mosbius.org/SSCS Chipathon - https://sscs.ieee.org/technical-commi...
00:00 Intro 00:42 Peter Kinget 09:59 Blinky Demo 22:27 MOSBius Mission 25:37 Questions - Design 33:02 Questions - Safety 41:37 Questions - Future plans 50:03 Delta Sigma Demo 57:59 Outro04 Nov, 2025180 GHz chip design with open source tools - an interview with Shafin Hossain.
Matt Venn
Design repo: https://github.com/shafinhossain/TO_M...OpenEMS script: https://github.com/VolkerMuehlhaus/op...
00:00 Intro 00:41 Shafin intro 02:33 Ironman Inspiration 04:11 G band power amplifier on IHP 130 BiCMOS 15:37 Design Questions 25:47 Simulation Questions 29:00 Testing 31:48 General Questions 34:13 Tools Questions 37:36 How to contact Shafin 38:46 Plans for the future 40:38 Outro04 Nov, 2025
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