🌐 When open silicon meets radio waves: Two Tiny Tapeout chips + cosmic serendipity = DIY Software-Defined Radio. An ADC meets RF mixer in silicon matrimony, birthing a quantum-punk rebellion against closed hardware. Democracy hits the airwaves at $100/chip 📡🧪 #OpenSilicon https://www.hackster.io/news/sylvain-munaut-combines-two-tiny-tapeout-projects-to-create-an-open-silicon-software-defined-radio-0bc2981b3ff3

He recibido la CLEAR FPGA de @efabless
: La primera FPGA Libre que es Silicio abierto: Se ha fabricado en un chip, y TODOS sus ficheros de diseño son libres, así como todo el software usado para su fabricación en el chip. Es un gran avance
https://github.com/efabless/clear/
#FPGAwars #OpenSilicon

Excited to have ordered some /properly/ open-source hardware. One of @matthewvenn's VGA clock #TinyTapeout kits.

Plus it includes a donation to @oshwassociation

https://store.tinytapeout.com/products/TT03p5-Development-Kit-VGA-PMOD-p655428056

#opensource #OSHW #hardware #weeknotes #OpenSilicon

Dear colleagues from @GoIT, please take a look at scarv project
https://www.scarv.org/
Very, very interesting
#RISCV #openSilicon #openhardware

one critical point in fostering openness is on...doing things. In the coming months we are proposing several actions in the shape of workshops. The goal: discussing the pros and cons, the road ahead in open hardware and open silicon. The context: GoIT
@GoIT
#opensource #openhardware #openSilicon

Now at @crowdsupply #teardown2023:
"Design and Fund Your Custom ASIC in Three Months" from Mohamed Kassem of eFabless
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2023/long-talk/design-and-fund-your-custom-asic-in-three-months #portland #pdx #asic #openhardware #opensilicon #openmpw #opensource

Another funder is the US govt, through #DARPA:

"...#POSH program seeks to enable mathematically provable secure electronics and create an open source hardware IP ecosystem, along with accompanying validation tools... The program also aims to develop and release a number of silicon-proven analog and digital IP blocks on an open source platform to serve as a foundation for rapid design of complex secure SoCs at leading edge technology nodes."

#DrSungKyuLim

https://www.darpa.mil/program/posh-open-source-hardware

#OpenSilicon

It disturbs me to see Goggle trying to claim thought leadership over a major area of Open Hardware dev, through things like their sponsorship of the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, the stewardship organisation of LibreCores.org (now retired). This funding is obviously useful to the organisations and projects that receive it, and allows them to do good work. But it also allows Goggle to subtly shape their priorities, and not only by selecting what they do and don't fund.

#OpenSilicon

#TIL courtesy of #FOSSAsia:

"The SkyWater Open Source PDK on Github is listed as a collaboration between Google and SkyWater Technology Foundry to provide a fully open source PDK and related sources. This so that one can create manufacturable designs at the SkyWater foundry, that target the 130 nm node. Open tools here should mean a far lower cost of entry than is usually the case."

#MayaPosch, 2020

https://hackaday.com/2020/06/25/creating-a-custom-asic-with-the-first-open-source-pdk/

#OpenHardware #OpenSilicon #PDK #SkyWater

Is anyone at #stateofopencon #soocon23? I'm around all day and would love to meet anyone interested in #GNURadio, a student, involved in #openhardware, #opensilicon, #sdr, or just looking to meet folks!

Google is supporting the open silicon community with an open sourced process design kit for SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/05/Build%20Open%20Silicon%20with%20Google.html

#Google #OpenSilicon #PDK #Hardware #OpenHardware #OpenSource #SkyWater #130nm #Efabless #OpenMPW #OpenROAD #OpenLane #XLS #ASIC #RISCV #OpenPOWER