Collaborate Disseminate
A process design kit (PDK) is a by now fairly standard part of any transformation of a new chip design into silicon. A PDK describes how a design maps to a foundry’s tools, which itself are described by a DRM, or design rule manual. The FOSSi foundation now reports on …read more
Continue reading Creating A Custom ASIC With The First Open Source PDK
Typically when we select a project for “Fail to the Week” honors, it’s because something went wrong with the technology of the project. But the tech of [Leo Fernekes]’ innovative LED sign system was never the problem; it was the realities of scaling up to production as well as the …read more
Continue reading Fail of the Week: Bright Idea for LED Signs Goes Bad
Join us on Wednesday, December 18 at noon Pacific for the Weird World of Microwaves Hack Chat with Shahriar Shahramian! We’ve been following him on The Signal Path for years and are excited to pick his brain on what is often considered one of the dark arts of electronics.
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Most of the time if you were to want to develop for an FPGA, you might turn to Verilog or VHDL. Both of these are quite capable, but they are also firmly rooted in languages that are old-fashioned by today’s standards. There have been quite a few attempts to treat …read more
Power authorities are concerned about Bitcoin’s energy use; how does it stack up against growing bud? Continue reading How Much Energy Does It Take to Grow Weed vs. Mining Bitcoin?
A wave of 51 percent attacks affecting Bitcoin Gold, Verge, and Monacoin resulted in nearly $20 million worth of cryptocurrency being stolen from exchanges this week. Continue reading Cryptocurrency Miners Are Sabotaging Blockchains for Their Personal Gain
“Lee” used cryptocurrency mining ASICs to heat his bath, which turned the temperature up to 122 Fahrenheit. Continue reading This Guy Heated Bath Water With Bitcoin Mining and It Worked Too Well
By Uzair Amir
Samsung cryptocurrency mining chips called application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) will
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Samsung is working on producing cryptocurrency mining chips
Continue reading Samsung is working on producing cryptocurrency mining chips
Bitmain maintains a near-monopoly on Bitcoin hardware, now it’s coming for Siacoin. Continue reading What Happens When a Chinese Giant Swoops In on Your Tiny Cryptocurrency
Join [Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen], Analog/digital Design Engineer at Merus-Audio, for this week’s Hack Chat.
Every week, we find a few interesting people making the things that make the things that make all the things, sit them down in front of a computer, and get them to spill the beans on how modern manufacturing and technology actually happens. This is the Hack Chat, and it’s happening this Friday, March 31, at noon PDT (20:00 UTC).
Jørgen’s company has developed a line of multi level Class D amplifiers that focus on power reduction to save battery life in mobile application without losing …read more
