Our first COB (chip on board) chips are working! This has been a dream of mine for a few years, and it’s finally a reality! We’re used to seeing chips as little black boxes on a circuit board, but what’s inside? The first part of the journey started with Tamas creating this cool circuit board. Then Stuart visited an old friend’s wire bonding factory in the outskirts of Shenzhen. It’s nothing like you might imagine. While IC manufacturing itself requires a very strict level of cleanl...| Articles on Zero to ASIC Course
I’m very happy to announce that my paper about Tiny Tapeout has just been published by the IEEE solid state circuits magazine! Tiny Tapeout aims to make it easier and cheaper than ever to design and manufacture custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). I originally conceived of the idea in September 2022 as a way to guarantee silicon for my course participants. If you’re an IEEE member, you can read it here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10584359, otherwise you can r...| Articles on Zero to ASIC Course