Get your designs to Silicon

Caution: Too nerdy stuff!

Introduction

Why Talk About TinyTapeout?

Did you know you can design and manufacture your very own computer chip for less than the cost of a team dinner?

What is an ASIC?

Application-Specific Integrated Circuit

or

Application-Specific IC

Circuit Board

Integrated Circuit

Get one fabricated yourself from: JLCPCB.com or PCBWay.com

Buy ICs from: mouser.ca or digikey.ca

Circuit Board

Integrated Circuits

I'll list here one of my own soon - hopefully :)

Or fabricate one at home

Build yours using TinyTapeout

Why ASIC Design has been challenging?

  • Expensive!!
  • Requires licenses
  • Requires NDA
  • You can't share your own design

What is TinyTapeout?

How does that make designing ASIC affordable?

Why should you care?

TinyTapeout

By Ali Yousuf