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

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

January 19, 2026
Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon. An interview with Matthew Gill
<div>A deep dive into radiation, bit flips, orbital hot spots, and what it really takes for silicon to survive in low Earth orbit.</div><div><br></div><div>Follow Matthew Gill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/42-matthew-gill/</div><div><br></div><div>00:00 Intro </div><div>01:30 Matthew is a nuclear engineer </div><div>02:26 How do you test without going to orbit? </div><div>07:01 How does a bit flip happen? </div><div>09:00 What does a hardened PDK and tooling look like? </div><div>11:31 ESD testing </div><div>14:15 RP2040 on HUNITY </div><div>19:39 What is LEO like? </div><div>23:35 Building a sensor to measure these effects </div><div>25:22 Open source silicon intersecting with space </div><div>30:26 What kind of shielding could we add? </div><div>33:54 Van Allen belts </div><div>39:18 Error detection </div><div>41:28 Wafer variability </div><div>44:05 Managing thermals </div><div>49:44 Thanks</div>

November 4, 2025
Get started with Analog - Interview with Nanik Adnani.
<div>take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/</div><div>Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...</div><div>Kelly Heaton's analog birds: https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/dee...</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>00:00 Intro </div><div>00:55 Nanik Adnani </div><div>01:52 Why analog </div><div>03:46 Horizontal vs Vertical IP block s</div><div>09:20 Advice for getting into industry </div><div>11:20 Analog Birds by Kelly Heaton </div><div>15:30 Guitar Distortion Pedal on Tiny Tapeout </div><div>17:50 The schematic isn't the hard part </div><div>20:51 130nm isn't as far from 7nm as you think </div><div>23:07 Do a Tiny Tapeout!</div>

November 4, 2025
Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview with Tibor Herman and Pat Deegan
<div>Tibor's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...</div><div>Tiny Tapeout 6: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt06/</div><div>Test code repository: https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic...</div><div>Chat on the discord: https://tinytapeout.com/discord</div><div>Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinytapeout.com/#sign-up</div><div><br></div><div>00:00 Intro </div><div>00:21 Tibor Bio </div><div>02:31 HUNITY </div><div>05:41 Previous missions </div><div>10:34 What orbit will it fly in? </div><div>17:09 Solar Panel Deployment </div><div>19:21 Mission Goals </div><div>24:07 Inside HUNITY </div><div>34:42 Tiny Tapeout integration </div><div>41:58 How to get involved </div><div>43:17 Communications </div><div>44:34 Sponsors </div><div>46:19 Vibration tests </div><div>48:30 Picking up the signals</div>
43 total episodes available with 5 transcripts
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