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	Podcast:		The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
	Episode:		#650 – Accessible ASICs with Andreas Olofsson
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		01:03:50
	Publish Date:		2023-11-13 01:38:37
	Description:		Welcome back, Andreas Olofsson of ZeroASIC! Andreas was on the show back in 2015 (ep 254) talking about the Parallela, a crowdfunded parallel calcuation board by his then-company Adapteva What is enabling more open source to happen? Unit economics really impact silicon designs Open source effects have been having a positive effect on the industry. Andreas maintains a meta repo of 400 tools. Fewer fabs than 2008, mask sets still expensive Semiconductor singularity Andreas is deep into the world of “chiplets” This is the basis of his new company ZeroASIC Before he started that he was a program manager at a little outfit called DARPA Andreas focused on lowering costs, with the idea that 3 people should be able to design a chip He worked under Bill Chappell, the director of the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) OpenROAD POSH CHIPS TinyTapeout Andrew Kang UCSD Chiplets We had Ming Zhang on to tlk about ZGlue, but that was a slightly different architecture What is a chiplet? AXI on chip SERDES Types of interconnect Organic Types of output SIP, Chip, SOM ZeroASIC is Andreas’ latest company They started by releasing a Silicon compiler project New thing is take system customers and build them an ASIC Optimizing speed and cost Mostly targeting aerospace and defense Try it out yourself on the ZeroASIC emulation page Their main processor is a Quadcore RISC V There are no off the shelf chiplets eFabric Active Interposer Defining a standard arm made a standard called amba AIB from Intel was opensourced Getting external contributors (hardware vs software) LatchUp – Fossi Personal passion drives people to contribute You’re really buying a datasheet from a big company Loading the design to AWS Check out the ZeroASIC openings Read about how ZeroASIC is democratizing chip making
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