Zero to ASIC Course

About Zero to ASIC Course

Interviews and news from the world of Open Source Silicon, ASICs and Semiconductors.

Publisher

Matt Venn

Category

education · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Mar 2021

Latest episode

19 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 43 episodes have a transcript.

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   19 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon. An interview with Matthew Gill

   A deep dive into radiation, bit flips, orbital hot spots, and what it really takes for silicon to survive in low Earth orbit. Follow Matthew Gill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/42-matthew-gill/ 00:00 Intro 01:30 Matthew is a nuclear engineer 02:26 How do you test without going to orbit? 07:01 How does a bit flip happen? 09:00 What does a hardened PDK and tooling look like? 11:31 ESD testing 14:15 RP2040 on HUNITY 19:39 What is LEO like? 23:35 Building a sensor to measure these effects 25:22 Open source silicon intersecting with space 30:26 What kind of shielding could we add? 33:54 Van Allen belts 39:18 Error detection 41:28 Wafer variability 44:05 Managing thermals 49:44 Thanks

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   4 Nov 2025

   Get started with Analog - Interview with Nanik Adnani.

   take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/ Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0... Kelly Heaton's analog birds: https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/dee... -- 00:00 Intro 00:55 Nanik Adnani 01:52 Why analog 03:46 Horizontal vs Vertical IP block s 09:20 Advice for getting into industry 11:20 Analog Birds by Kelly Heaton 15:30 Guitar Distortion Pedal on Tiny Tapeout 17:50 The schematic isn't the hard part 20:51 130nm isn't as far from 7nm as you think 23:07 Do a Tiny Tapeout!

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   4 Nov 2025

   Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview with Tibor Herman and Pat Deegan

   Tibor's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/... Tiny Tapeout 6: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt06/ Test code repository: https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic... Chat on the discord: https://tinytapeout.com/discord Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinytapeout.com/#sign-up 00:00 Intro 00:21 Tibor Bio 02:31 HUNITY 05:41 Previous missions 10:34 What orbit will it fly in? 17:09 Solar Panel Deployment 19:21 Mission Goals 24:07 Inside HUNITY 34:42 Tiny Tapeout integration 41:58 How to get involved 43:17 Communications 44:34 Sponsors 46:19 Vibration tests 48:30 Picking up the signals

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Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon. An interview with Matthew Gill

Published 19 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But the South Atlantic anomaly is the bit where because the way the Earth's kind of magnetic field is kind of like it's angled part of it kind of hugs in a little bit closer. So when you're orbiting you don't really experience Van Allen belt very much but in low with orbit you still catch the South Atlantic anomaly and it kind of hugs in right where right right right right on the South Atlantic. So if you have let me find yeah nice thing here we go. So this is kind of probably in your polar orbit what your kind of dose distribution looks like. So as you're going over the poles you kind of get this one bit here this kind of hopping in the heat map and you also go over Brazil. […]

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