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Podcast: The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
Episode: #703 – Building wafer.space with Tim Ansell
Description:
Welcome back Tim Ansell!
Tim’s past appearances and previous work
Discussing Tomu on 375
Discussing Fomu on 456.3
Discussing the open source PDK on 501
Tim’s previous work at Google involved releasing a manufacturable open-source PDK (Process Development Kit), which contains the fundamental information needed to create integrated circuits.
Key open-source tools discussed include OpenROAD (a backend compiler for IC design) and Open Lane (an end-to-end suite turning chip descriptions (RTL) into manufacturing data (GDS)). Andreas had been on the show talking about his work on OpenROAD. Not discussed on the show but after Efabless went away, Open...