Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about Tiny Tapeout - it’s a way to dip your toe into the world of open source chip design. You can do it all in the web browser with no tool downloads.
After you’ve got a design you like, you can even get it manufactured on our next shuttle run - which will open for submissions on the 9th of November.
Who knows, maybe one day something like this will be help alleviate the parts shortage!
I think it is simply amazing. I did a prestudy on an ASIC design some years back
One day, a custom chip will be available as easy as we pick COTS components today (I hope)
Just wanted to update here in case people want to give it a try. The chip ignite shuttle run has been delayed till 5th December, so there are still 10 days left to get involved.
Even if not - check out this great auto generated datasheet! https://github.com/TinyTapeout/tinytapeout-02/raw/tt02/datasheet.pdf
Tiny Tapeout 4 is closing for submissions on the 8th of September!
In TT04 we have got rid of the serial scan chain and replaced it with a combinational mux, giving us about a 1000x speed increase on the IOs. Now expecting 50MHz.
We’ve also added another 10 IOs and can support larger designs.
Submission can be as easy as adding some verilog to a clone of our repository and commiting it. Check the verilog demo here: Working with HDLs :: Documentation in English