Zero to ASIC Course
Have you ever wondered how to make your own computer chip? In Matt Venn’s Zero to ASIC Course, you will learn exactly how to design and build your own!
Matthew Venn is a science & technology communicator and electronic engineer. He brings 20 years of engineering experience to create excellent and innovative learning experiences for people all over the world. If you’re interested in the course, be sure to visit the link below!
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“Learn to design your own ASIC and get it fabricated! Thanks to the new open source Process Development Kit from Google and Skywater and the OpenLane ASIC tools from Efabless, we now have the opportunity to get involved in this exciting field without signing NDAs or paying a fortune for tool licenses.
GCC revolutionised compiling, Linux revolutionised computing. Android revolutionised phones. Arduino revolutionised microcontrollers. RISCV is revolutionising ISAs. The next step is open source silicon.
This course will give you the experience of designing your own microchip using free and open source tools and getting it manufactured on an open source PDK.
Of the 430 people who have taken the course, 70 have submitted designs for MPW2, MPW3, MPW4, MPW5, MPW6, MPW7, MPW8 and Tiny Tapeout
We have received MPW1, 2 and 3 and the chips are mostly working!“
Course Overview
- Full course details here.
- We will concentrate on digital design.
- A virtual machine is available or you can install the tools manually.
- The course is continually updated for the latest tooling and PDK.
Format
- 11 hands-on projects, supported with text guides and over 6 hours of videos.
- Support via:
- Recorded solutions videos.
- Discord community server.
- Weekly course hangout call.
- 1 to 1 office hours with Matt: access to expert help on the Boron and Arsenic level tickets.
- Asynchronous – do in your own time.
- Guaranteed ASIC manufacture with TinyTapeout.
- High resolution set of digital images of the decapped ASIC – see FAQ.
- Access to the course materials for the lifetime of the course.
- Course completion certificate.
Prerequisites
- Basic Linux command line experience, Git & Make is helpful.
- Some programming experience helpful.
- No hardware or HDL experience required!
- Please note that M1 Macs are not well supported at this time.
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