Collaborate Disseminate
The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For …read more Continue reading A Demo Party On A Chip
Tiny Tapout is an interesting project, leveraging the power of cloud computing and collaborative purchasing to make the mysterious art of IC design more accessible for hardware hackers. [Yeo Kheng …read more Continue reading Tiny Tapeout 4: A PWM clone of Covox Speech Thing
It’s with a tinge of sadness that we and many others reported on the recent move by Zilog to end-of-life the original Z80 8-bit microprocessor. This was the part that …read more Continue reading The Z80 Is Dead. Long Live The Free Z80!
Some time over a decade ago, the arrival of inexpensive PCB fabrication revolutionised the creation of custom electronics on a budget. It’s now normal for even the smallest projects we …read more Continue reading An ASIC For A Secret File
Tiny Tapeout is a way for students, hobbyists, and home gamers to get their own ASICs designs fabbed into real custom chips. Tiny Tapeout 3 was the third running, with …read more Continue reading Analog ASIC Design Built Using Digital Standard Cells
If you were reading this post a month ago, you could have been forgiven for thinking it was an April Fools post. But we assure you, this is no joke. …read more Continue reading Home Heating With Bitcoin Miners is Now a Real Thing
The odds are that if you’ve heard about application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) at all, it’s in the context of cryptocurrency mining. For some currencies, the only way to efficiently mine …read more Continue reading Opening Up ASIC Design
Custom semiconductor chips are generally big projects made by big companies with big budgets. Thanks to Tiny Tapeout, students, hobbyists, or anyone else can quickly get their designs onto an …read more Continue reading Tiny Tapeout 3: Get Your Own Chip Design to a Fab
Not that long ago, rolling your own printed circuit boards was difficult, time-consuming and expensive. But thanks to an army of cheap, online manufacturing services as well as high-quality free …read more Continue reading Supercon 2022: Matt Venn’s Tiny Tapeout Brings Chip Design to the Masses
For any given processor it’s generally easy to find a statistic on the number of transistors used to construct it, with the famous Intel 8086 CPU generally said to contain …read more Continue reading It’s Not Easy Counting Transistors in the 8086 Processor