Episodes 43
Avg. Duration 24m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Mar 2021
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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Interviews and news from the world of Open Source Silicon, ASICs and Semiconductors.

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Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon. An interview with Matthew Gill

Jan 19, 2026 835h 31m

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…

Get started with Analog - Interview with Nanik Adnani.

Nov 21, 2025 24m

take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...Kelly Heaton's analog birds:…

Get started with Analog - Interview with Nanik Adnani.

Nov 04, 2025 24m

take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...Kelly Heaton's analog birds:…

Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview with Tibor Herman and Pat Deegan

Nov 04, 2025 50m

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:…

MOSbius - A field programmable transistor array for chip designers - interview with Peter Kinget

Nov 04, 2025 59m

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…

180 GHz chip design with open source tools - an interview with Shafin Hossain.

Nov 04, 2025 42m

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…

Rest in peace Z80, long live the open source Z80!

May 13, 2024 37m

00:00 intro 00:56 z80 04:54 Submitted to TT07 06:52 NMOS 08:22 dynamic memory 10:28 z80 was everything in one chip 12:00 hand layout 14:10 most widely used CPU in the 80s 17:27 Tiny Tapeout…

Analog Philosophy - interview with Nordic’s principal IC scientist Carsten Wulff

Mar 01, 2024 30m

* Carsten’s background and interest in analog circuit design * Open-source silicon and its benefits vs. challenges * Analog design tools evolution * Obstacles that hinder wider adoption of…

Chips in days with Minimal Fab - An interview with Leo Moser

Feb 14, 2024 24m

Talking about the minimal fab with Leo Moser. Leo recently won a competition run by minimal fab and had a design fabricated.He's published a few blog posts about it here:About the Minimal Fab: …

An interview with Ed Conway - Silicon Supply Chains

Jan 24, 2024 34m

Follow Ed here: https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky Buy his book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo... Sign up to my newsletter here: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/news...

September open source silicon news update - Tiny Tapeout, Conferences, Silicon bringup & more!

Sep 05, 2023 4m

00:00 Intro 00:10 TT boards 00:51 TT04 closes on Friday 8th 01:09 ORConf https://orconf.org/ 01:21 Wuthering Bytes 01:53 FSiC videos released https://peertube.f-si.org/video-chann... 02:04…

Interviews from the Free Silicon Conference, Paris, 2023

Jul 19, 2023 21m

Interviews with:Luca Alloatti Thomas Benz Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen Thomas Parry Rene Scholz Dan Fritchman Harald Pretl

The MOnSter 6502 - how Eric Schlaepfer built a 6502 processor out of discrete transistors

Jun 12, 2023 50m

Website: https://monster6502.com/ & visual 6502 http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html Eric's socials: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS & https://mastodon.social/@tubetime Other interviews:…

First chip designed with ChatGPT? An interview with Dr. Hammond Pearce & Jason Blocklove

Jun 12, 2023 27m

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13243 00:00 Intro 01:21 Hardware security 02:54 How long have they been using AI to generate Verilog 05:26 Methodology 17:40 Humans in the loop 21:21 Some designs…

Analog ASIC design with digital standard cells!

May 15, 2023 439h 7m

For TinyTapeout 3, Harald Pretl made an analog temperature sensor out of digital standard cells. In this interview he explains how he did it.

Jeremy Birch on Tiny Tapeout's static timing analysis

May 15, 2023 672h 48m

Jeremy Birch implemented a custom STA timing setup for Tiny Tapeout 3. In this interview we discuss his background, what we needed the check and the results.

using X-rays to make 3D images of chips with Tomas Aidukas

Jan 19, 2023 26m

using X-rays to make 3D images of chips with Tomas Aidukas

Jorge Marín - DC / DC converter design and the IEEE chipathon

Jan 19, 2023 36m

Jorge Marín - DC / DC converter design and the IEEE chipathon

A look back at 2022 and what I'm looking forward to in 2023

Jan 19, 2023 15m

A look back at 2022 and what I'm looking forward to in 2023

September news update: MPW7 & 2, GDS renders, new videos & more!

Oct 07, 2022 4m

MPW7: https://zerotoasiccourse.com/post/mpw7_submitted/ MPW2: https://groups.google.com/g/skywater-pdk-announce/c/HelusBBUZ20 Efabless Job:…

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