Julia Desmazes joins Chris to discuss designing chips for fun and getting an entire design done in 2 weeks to make a tapeout deadline. Julia built accerlators and has continued to dive deeper into on and off chip tooling for greater visibility into the silicon she gets back from the fab.

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)

#721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

APR 9, 202659 MIN
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes

APR 9, 202659 MIN

Description

Welcome Julia Desmazes of Tales on The Wire Follow along with the blog post we discuss Two Weeks Until Tapeout Matt Venn – TinyTapeout – Episode 616 and 672 Andreas Olofsson – openroad/openlane – Episode 254 and 650 Tim Ansell – Wafer.space – Episode 375, 501, and 703 JTAG How do you know that tooling is or isn’t working? Accelerator Rabbithole with floating point (post updated after recording) BFloat16 Follow Julia on GitHubhttps://github.com/Essenceia Kapla (official website, not the much cheaper alibaba version): Dimity Grinberg personal blog