Zero to ASIC Course

A deep dive into radiation, bit flips, orbital hot spots, and what it really takes for silicon to survive in low Earth orbit.

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00:00 Intro
01:30 Matthew is a nuclear engineer
02:26 How do you test without going to orbit?
07:01 How does a bit flip happen?
09:00 What does a hardened PDK and tooling look like?
11:31 ESD testing
14:15 RP2040 on HUNITY
19:39 What is LEO like?
23:35 Building a sensor to measure these effects
25:22 Open source silicon intersecting with space
30:26 What kind of shielding could we add?
33:54 Van Allen belts
39:18 Error detection
41:28 Wafer variability
44:05 Managing thermals
49:44 Thanks

take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/
Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...
Kelly Heaton's analog birds: https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/dee...

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Nanik Adnani
01:52 Why analog
03:46 Horizontal vs Vertical IP block s
09:20 Advice for getting into industry
11:20 Analog Birds by Kelly Heaton
15:30 Guitar Distortion Pedal on Tiny Tapeout
17:50 The schematic isn't the hard part
20:51 130nm isn't as far from 7nm as you think
23:07 Do a Tiny Tapeout!

take my analog course: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/analog/
Nanik's distortion ASIC: https://www.tinytapeout.com/chips/tt0...
Kelly Heaton's analog birds: https://www.kellyheatonstudio.com/dee...

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00:00 Intro
00:55 Nanik Adnani
01:52 Why analog
03:46 Horizontal vs Vertical IP block s
09:20 Advice for getting into industry
11:20 Analog Birds by Kelly Heaton
15:30 Guitar Distortion Pedal on Tiny Tapeout
17:50 The schematic isn't the hard part
20:51 130nm isn't as far from 7nm as you think
23:07 Do a Tiny Tapeout!

Tibor's slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Tiny Tapeout 6: https://tinytapeout.com/runs/tt06/
Test code repository: https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic...
Chat on the discord: https://tinytapeout.com/discord
Sign up for the newsletter: https://tinytapeout.com/#sign-up

00:00 Intro
00:21 Tibor Bio
02:31 HUNITY
05:41 Previous missions
10:34 What orbit will it fly in?
17:09 Solar Panel Deployment
19:21 Mission Goals
24:07 Inside HUNITY
34:42 Tiny Tapeout integration
41:58 How to get involved
43:17 Communications
44:34 Sponsors
46:19 Vibration tests
48:30 Picking up the signals

Zero to ASIC course - https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/

MOSbius - https://mosbius.org/
SSCS Chipathon - https://sscs.ieee.org/technical-commi...

00:00 Intro
00:42 Peter Kinget
09:59 Blinky Demo
22:27 MOSBius Mission
25:37 Questions - Design
33:02 Questions - Safety
41:37 Questions - Future plans
50:03 Delta Sigma Demo
57:59 Outro