Thank you so much for this video! I'm very much looking forward to the following videos. Your effort spent on making them is very much appreciated :) I have actually considered to take this course as well but could not bring myself to spend that much money on it. I guess it really depends on the perspective. I am extremely fortunate to be working in a semiconductor company (but not as a designer) so I have a bunch of colleagues with tremendous knowledge and many interesting stories to share. Who knows, maybe I'll join them one day. Thanks again!
Hey, well thank you for letting me know! It is a good deal of effort to make these things (on top of all the actual work, heh), but it really is my pleasure. I'm the main tech guy in a small company, so it's nice to be able to share my exciting discoveries with people who can appreciate them--I'm thrilled when someone learns something from these vids. You're lucky to be surrounded by deep knowledge, I hope you ask a lot of questions--anyone like me is happy to share, and everybody wins. If I know there's interest, I'll keep making them, so thanks again for letting me know. For now, you can follow the course vicariously through me and... all these tools are open source, you can certainly start playing with them to your hearts content, see how much you like it, how deep you want to go. I have a few things already on the stack, and I'm learning more/prepping more every day... will update soon. Cheers
My hair is long and sadly a tiny bit has been a little gray recently, so maybe that is why learning microchip design. Sprint sprint sprint (when My body hasn’t been too tired from involuntary “fasting” when visiting shenzhen where some native chinese sadly interfered with Me getting food and drinks before the typhoon yesterday). Anyway, was up involuntarily early because body was requesting food has led to laying in bed instead of finishing the ground connections on a PCB right now and hopefully the food and drinks will arrive soon so can go back to bed. Anyway, glad to find somebody that seems like somebody I would likely be friends with. Thanks for posting these tutorials! Excuse the mildly delirious malnourished rambling.
Haha, yeah, I feel you--on the touches of gray, the urgency to learn and move, and the famished ramblings! Glad you enjoyed, summer party's coming to a close and I have a bunch more to share here, so "see you" soon :)
Great video! You mentioned in the beginning that you have designed analog neural nets. I have been planning to design one myself as a fun summer break project. Are there any tips you may have to get started? From what I’ve heard, it seems like a huge but super rewarding process.
Hi, thanks!! Yes, well kinda... I didn't *design* the nets, I worked on the project and I want to get into designing such, which is why I'm doing the whole ASIC course thing. My experience to date is that it is, like you say, pretty huge and rewarding. My advice would be: * even if you're going for custom chips and such, start getting to know your basic units in sim and even with discrete components; * be ready for a whole lot of process variation--matched FETs is nice and all, but even in the same area of the same silicon, I didn't know how much impact this could have. If you can do your current mirrors and all the bits with discrete components, you'll have a clearer idea of how to design some resilience and just how many knobs you need for trimming; and * instrument that thing like a madman, and allow for isolated use and characterization--on first iterations, we needed to look deep deep at everything and have bypass channels to eliminate variables and sidestep things that didn't workout so well to refine the other parts in parallel. But, like I said, I wasn't on the design team for that... working on it, next time maybe :) Good luck/have fun!
Yes! I mean the open tooling, if you're going to be doing mixed-signal/analog, has some history to it as well (see my analog asic video) but it's alive and well maintained... so, some work to be done but it's happening and the openness means we can even help it along if we want. I think the real limiting factor may be the available PDKs, for now. I see microwind supporting things like FinFET/nsFET which, AFAIK, just aren't things any of the currently open processes support. But, my guess is more PDKs will become available and the open tooling is certainly a nice thing to have at your disposal.
The content is good but 1-minute mosfet is a catchy line. Having more than 10 years of experience in this field its hard to believe that one can make it in 1 minute. Just a polite point of view.
Hello, and thanks for the feedback! I think I managed to make a (pretty awful) mosfet, pretty fast there... I wouldn't want to try and tape it out though, that's for sure, hah! Glad you enjoyed, and it's really nice to get input from actual experts from the field. Cheers!
Next, you can start down the path of getting a circuit on a chip. Either a simple logic circuit using wokwi, a more complex system using HDL or you can go down the road of playing with FETs directly doing analog and mixed signal. If you want to play, check out tinytapeout.com or some of my other videos in the ASIC playlist.
Much more interested in learning how to convert a simple C app into a chip without having to do all the electronics logic manually like it’s 50 calendar years ago
Hah, but you're thinking like a programmer! I tend to fall into the same... but really, if you're thinking in terms of step-by-step algorithms, maybe what you need is a CPU! ;-) Seriously, anything that can/should be broken down into simultaneous/parallel ops can benefit from being done in hardware, and the best way to start that is with FPGAs. Cheap, quick turn-around, fun. And getting down to the gate level is informative and fun, but that's like when they teach you to do derivatives by hand, over two pages of calculations: interesting, educational, way too painful for real life... you can use high-level tools, like Python and Amaranth (which I lean on a lot) that make doing design much less of a slog.
hahaha, I don't know if you saw the "project neptune" video (ruclips.net/video/h9_4jBKhs9k/видео.html) but that's pretty much the extent of my shredding abilities (i.e. adding a soundtrack over me fumbling with the guitar), lol.
I have a question that I hope doesn't annoy you, but I come from a creative background and have worked in the creative industry in films, videogame and commercial as a Creative Director, but the last 2 years I've been out of work and it has been very hard to find any work in this industry right now. So now I got a potential job to become an ASIC Designer. I've told the guy that wants to hire me that I know nothing about programming and electrical engineering and it would be very difficult for me to come in and just learn it without foundational skills to get there. He is in a high position and keeps telling me how easy it is to learn, but I told him he has decades of experience in this industry and I don't. But....I'd like to get this job because I'm desperate to get back to work and don't mind working anymore, but I am afraid I won't be able to learn it adequately without any experience. I've been watching videos for awhile to get prepared for this by january. They plan on sending me to school for 6 months to learn it, but is that enough time to grasp the concept to work adequately in this field?
Hello Andy, This may be a bit of an odd situation--I'm unclear if you've got any technical background or inclination, and you have to wonder why this guy is offering the job and training. Could be he sees some awesome potential, could be ... something else. I'll let you handle that aspect of it. The final bit on this front is: hunger's a good baseline motivator but not, in my experience, the best for excelling, having fun or longterm progress. Anyway, I hope you find an enjoyable path and this might be the doorway to a whole new world for you. My thoughts on this are basically that you can most likely get proficient pretty fast, especially if you've got a logical mind, are someone who can think "ok I am here/have this and I want to get there/produce that, what are the steps it would take to make it happen?" and come up with some ideas. Now if they're talking about analog design... well, maybe not *that* fast, but really it depends on you. I'm going to assume we're focused on digital, and its the best place to start regardless. In that case, I think the best approach is just NOT to wait. An ASIC is a mass-producible, cost effective way to create a whole lot of tiny circuits. But, logically, you can do all the same digital things with an FPGA. So, with $40 or something, a laptop and some effort, you can gain both a ton of experience and an appreciation as to whether you'd want to spend your day doing this. Do a search for "ice40 fpga module" and you'll find a ton of little devices you can use with open source tools and projects (i.e. both free and usually backed by a community of interesting and interested people). In fact, before you even spend that money, go through the digital design guide using a simulator, like the one on tinytapeout that uses wokwi (a simulator): tinytapeout.com/digital_design/ It's all free, and it's a nice way to play with these things a bit. Don't worry if it's a bit overwhelming at first, if you've never seen a logic gate. Just follow the handful of exercises and play around. Then there's the wokwi discord with lots of people who use it and can help. Once you feel you get it, start with FPGAs. That's a world unto itself, and you can go as far as you like. Within a few weeks, you should be more than ready to absorb anything the training will throw at you. Finally, there's the zero2asic course (disclosure: I work with Matt on this): www.zerotoasiccourse.com/ Name says it all. I think it's pretty cool. Good luck and have fun (best way to get good at stuff... and to me all this is not easy, but fun!)
Wow that is the most thorough response I've ever gotten. I got the job offer because he just likes me. Simple as that. I've known him for awhile and have helped him with a lot of creative gigs. I told him I need a job that I would love to work in the marketing department and I also come from a creative background so he tried to find me work in those field, but unfortunately he's not connected to any of those fields that are hiring so he pressed the option of Staff Engineer onto me, and said they will send me to school for 6 months to learn ASICS. But I decided to look into it and see if I can learn it enough before I start, but now I am so overwhelmed. I told him this isn't something you can learn in 6 months with no prior background in electrical engineering!! But I'm desperate so I'm willing to learn. I would say that I can learn technical stuff, but not this is a completely new field for me so I have zero understanding of it. I have been learning about AI a lot and machine learning, that's as far as my technical brain works outside of 3D animation which I guess is technical as well but does not require coding. When I do, I just google it. I actually saved your zerotoasicourse a few days ago, but right now since I don't get paid much I wouldn't be able to afford that doing the current job I'm doing now. But I definitely will sign up IF I take the job. I hope I enjoy it, but reading and researching about it is giving me anxiety. I feel like I'm expected to learn something people learn in 4 years in just a few weeks, but I know this isn't an opportunity to pass as I've been reading that many people work hard just to get a chance at this. @@PsychogenicTechnologies
@@AndyHTu We're hitting on things that are much about personality and circumstance and, I don't know you so instead I'll tell you what I've had to tell myself a few times, and talk about what I found works for me. I work well under pressure--some of my best has come out in crunches and actual real life emergencies. But there's a point a which it turns negative, into overwhelm and dismay, and then suddenly I'm ... out. Learning is fun. Cramming isn't. Trying to swallow a whole career field in two gulps probably won't be enjoyable and can lead to sadness/burnout/whatever. When I do hit these points, I'm lucky: my body just stops and won't let me go on. So, ok, I stop. And then I'll stay stopped. Until, that is, I let curiosity come back in. Screw the project and the client and the deadline and the rent. When you're just wondering "how does that work?" or "could I possibly...?" or "I just want to see if I might ..." and then you read a 5 minute tutorial, and try something. And do something dumb, or explore some gadget. No one wants to watch my RF videos, but I'm still curious. So in moments like that, I just watch a 10 minute video, and then go muck around with a simulator or some actual components and try some things. Sometimes there's an epiphany. Sometimes it's just "huh". But learning happens when you get some focused play time. Then, sometimes, comes interest. And more play, and eventually you start getting good, which really gets motivating--then you get really good, after a while. And not much later, I'm back in full swing, hungry to do learn and make things and share the results. So, if you want to give it a shot: go for it. But I'd try to be more curious than goal oriented for this. And if you can't find anything you're wondering about, sure give it a little time, watch some videos doing beginner projects (checkout bitluni for example but there's tons of entry level stuff here)... and if none of it ever sparks a spark, well that's ok. There are things that you are particularly suited to give to the world: try to give some of that away, whatever it is today. It's how I started 2 careers (so far). Sorry if I sound like I think I'm the wiseoldmanonthemountain or something--I ain't. But I've been in both the highs and lows of this type of journey, so hope there's something in all the verbiage that will help. Cheers
That actually was a beautiful comment and kind of got me a bit emotional inside. It has been a really rough 2 years for me. I thought everything was going great and then big lay offs ruined my trajectory. I'm actually on my second career as well. First being in the film and gaming industry as a 3d animator and visual effects artist, then I got into marketing where I did a lot of content marketing for about 10 years now. With this ASIC design, this would be my 3rd career but it's scary to me because I'm not a young buck anymore and the thought of having to go back to school and learn everything worries me and this time it is a totally different industry. I also had my own business but that too didn't go too well a few years a go so I closed down. And no need to apologize. Your wisdom is valuable to me! I've been blogging a lot as well and sharing my thoughts on the current creative industry but looks like I will be curiously watching these asic videos for now. I was given 2 choices, learn as much I can about asics in the first 2 weeks, then the second 2 weeks, learn about IC Layout, and see which one I would prefer. So this is my journey for now. He told me that with my design skills, I would adopt IC Layout faster, but I looked that up as well and its the same situation. You need a ton of education in electrical engineering and coding. @@PsychogenicTechnologies
Hello Jose, well, not really. But if you have specific questions, lemme know. And if you're looking to bulk-up your resume, then my best suggestion is to find an open-source project that needs help or could be improved. You get to choose what you work on, and make life better for all of us, rather than run around getting coffee for bozos while being underpaid.
I would say it is possible to create such an ASIC, I made a SHA-256 digester as one of the TT projects (github.com/psychogenic/tt05-shaman) and there's no real limit to what you can do, functionally. Energy efficiency, well there you're talking about the physics of the thing and what you're likely going to need a newer/smaller process than the sky130 process the open stuff is using, so assume your investment will need to grow. And finally, profitability: I've no clue in that dept, don't know the cryptocurrency world, what it needs, what it can support.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm very much looking forward to the following videos. Your effort spent on making them is very much appreciated :)
I have actually considered to take this course as well but could not bring myself to spend that much money on it. I guess it really depends on the perspective. I am extremely fortunate to be working in a semiconductor company (but not as a designer) so I have a bunch of colleagues with tremendous knowledge and many interesting stories to share. Who knows, maybe I'll join them one day.
Thanks again!
Hey, well thank you for letting me know! It is a good deal of effort to make these things (on top of all the actual work, heh), but it really is my pleasure. I'm the main tech guy in a small company, so it's nice to be able to share my exciting discoveries with people who can appreciate them--I'm thrilled when someone learns something from these vids.
You're lucky to be surrounded by deep knowledge, I hope you ask a lot of questions--anyone like me is happy to share, and everybody wins. If I know there's interest, I'll keep making them, so thanks again for letting me know. For now, you can follow the course vicariously through me and... all these tools are open source, you can certainly start playing with them to your hearts content, see how much you like it, how deep you want to go.
I have a few things already on the stack, and I'm learning more/prepping more every day... will update soon.
Cheers
Large enough p-ness is crucial.
haha, yes: magnitude matters
Boys will be boys
Pat you are awesome!!!! Great work!!
Sergey!! Hah, wow, thanks! Glad you liked :-D
My hair is long and sadly a tiny bit has been a little gray recently, so maybe that is why learning microchip design. Sprint sprint sprint (when My body hasn’t been too tired from involuntary “fasting” when visiting shenzhen where some native chinese sadly interfered with Me getting food and drinks before the typhoon yesterday). Anyway, was up involuntarily early because body was requesting food has led to laying in bed instead of finishing the ground connections on a PCB right now and hopefully the food and drinks will arrive soon so can go back to bed. Anyway, glad to find somebody that seems like somebody I would likely be friends with. Thanks for posting these tutorials! Excuse the mildly delirious malnourished rambling.
Haha, yeah, I feel you--on the touches of gray, the urgency to learn and move, and the famished ramblings!
Glad you enjoyed, summer party's coming to a close and I have a bunch more to share here, so "see you" soon :)
Great video! You mentioned in the beginning that you have designed analog neural nets. I have been planning to design one myself as a fun summer break project. Are there any tips you may have to get started? From what I’ve heard, it seems like a huge but super rewarding process.
Hi, thanks!! Yes, well kinda... I didn't *design* the nets, I worked on the project and I want to get into designing such, which is why I'm doing the whole ASIC course thing. My experience to date is that it is, like you say, pretty huge and rewarding. My advice would be:
* even if you're going for custom chips and such, start getting to know your basic units in sim and even with discrete components;
* be ready for a whole lot of process variation--matched FETs is nice and all, but even in the same area of the same silicon, I didn't know how much impact this could have. If you can do your current mirrors and all the bits with discrete components, you'll have a clearer idea of how to design some resilience and just how many knobs you need for trimming; and
* instrument that thing like a madman, and allow for isolated use and characterization--on first iterations, we needed to look deep deep at everything and have bypass channels to eliminate variables and sidestep things that didn't workout so well to refine the other parts in parallel.
But, like I said, I wasn't on the design team for that... working on it, next time maybe :)
Good luck/have fun!
@@PsychogenicTechnologies Thank you so much for the informative response! I can’t wait to see how this series goes. Definitely subscribing!
far out! was looking forward to a replacement for aging nonfree microwind. Other tools are not nearly as user-friendly
Yes! I mean the open tooling, if you're going to be doing mixed-signal/analog, has some history to it as well (see my analog asic video) but it's alive and well maintained... so, some work to be done but it's happening and the openness means we can even help it along if we want. I think the real limiting factor may be the available PDKs, for now. I see microwind supporting things like FinFET/nsFET which, AFAIK, just aren't things any of the currently open processes support. But, my guess is more PDKs will become available and the open tooling is certainly a nice thing to have at your disposal.
The content is good but 1-minute mosfet is a catchy line. Having more than 10 years of experience in this field its hard to believe that one can make it in 1 minute. Just a polite point of view.
Hello, and thanks for the feedback! I think I managed to make a (pretty awful) mosfet, pretty fast there... I wouldn't want to try and tape it out though, that's for sure, hah! Glad you enjoyed, and it's really nice to get input from actual experts from the field. Cheers!
@@PsychogenicTechnologies Okay thanks for explanation.
suppose i craet one and next ?
Next, you can start down the path of getting a circuit on a chip. Either a simple logic circuit using wokwi, a more complex system using HDL or you can go down the road of playing with FETs directly doing analog and mixed signal. If you want to play, check out tinytapeout.com or some of my other videos in the ASIC playlist.
Much more interested in learning how to convert a simple C app into a chip without having to do all the electronics logic manually like it’s 50 calendar years ago
Hah, but you're thinking like a programmer! I tend to fall into the same... but really, if you're thinking in terms of step-by-step algorithms, maybe what you need is a CPU! ;-) Seriously, anything that can/should be broken down into simultaneous/parallel ops can benefit from being done in hardware, and the best way to start that is with FPGAs. Cheap, quick turn-around, fun.
And getting down to the gate level is informative and fun, but that's like when they teach you to do derivatives by hand, over two pages of calculations: interesting, educational, way too painful for real life... you can use high-level tools, like Python and Amaranth (which I lean on a lot) that make doing design much less of a slog.
"fun"? LOL... Educational though. @@PsychogenicTechnologies
you really look like you should be teaching shredding on the guitar.
hahaha, I don't know if you saw the "project neptune" video (ruclips.net/video/h9_4jBKhs9k/видео.html) but that's pretty much the extent of my shredding abilities (i.e. adding a soundtrack over me fumbling with the guitar), lol.
I have a question that I hope doesn't annoy you, but I come from a creative background and have worked in the creative industry in films, videogame and commercial as a Creative Director, but the last 2 years I've been out of work and it has been very hard to find any work in this industry right now.
So now I got a potential job to become an ASIC Designer. I've told the guy that wants to hire me that I know nothing about programming and electrical engineering and it would be very difficult for me to come in and just learn it without foundational skills to get there. He is in a high position and keeps telling me how easy it is to learn, but I told him he has decades of experience in this industry and I don't. But....I'd like to get this job because I'm desperate to get back to work and don't mind working anymore, but I am afraid I won't be able to learn it adequately without any experience. I've been watching videos for awhile to get prepared for this by january. They plan on sending me to school for 6 months to learn it, but is that enough time to grasp the concept to work adequately in this field?
Hello Andy,
This may be a bit of an odd situation--I'm unclear if you've got any technical background or inclination, and you have to wonder why this guy is offering the job and training. Could be he sees some awesome potential, could be ... something else. I'll let you handle that aspect of it. The final bit on this front is: hunger's a good baseline motivator but not, in my experience, the best for excelling, having fun or longterm progress. Anyway, I hope you find an enjoyable path and this might be the doorway to a whole new world for you.
My thoughts on this are basically that you can most likely get proficient pretty fast, especially if you've got a logical mind, are someone who can think "ok I am here/have this and I want to get there/produce that, what are the steps it would take to make it happen?" and come up with some ideas. Now if they're talking about analog design... well, maybe not *that* fast, but really it depends on you.
I'm going to assume we're focused on digital, and its the best place to start regardless. In that case, I think the best approach is just NOT to wait.
An ASIC is a mass-producible, cost effective way to create a whole lot of tiny circuits. But, logically, you can do all the same digital things with an FPGA. So, with $40 or something, a laptop and some effort, you can gain both a ton of experience and an appreciation as to whether you'd want to spend your day doing this.
Do a search for "ice40 fpga module" and you'll find a ton of little devices you can use with open source tools and projects (i.e. both free and usually backed by a community of interesting and interested people).
In fact, before you even spend that money, go through the digital design guide using a simulator, like the one on tinytapeout that uses wokwi (a simulator): tinytapeout.com/digital_design/
It's all free, and it's a nice way to play with these things a bit. Don't worry if it's a bit overwhelming at first, if you've never seen a logic gate. Just follow the handful of exercises and play around. Then there's the wokwi discord with lots of people who use it and can help.
Once you feel you get it, start with FPGAs. That's a world unto itself, and you can go as far as you like. Within a few weeks, you should be more than ready to absorb anything the training will throw at you.
Finally, there's the zero2asic course (disclosure: I work with Matt on this): www.zerotoasiccourse.com/ Name says it all. I think it's pretty cool.
Good luck and have fun (best way to get good at stuff... and to me all this is not easy, but fun!)
Wow that is the most thorough response I've ever gotten. I got the job offer because he just likes me. Simple as that. I've known him for awhile and have helped him with a lot of creative gigs. I told him I need a job that I would love to work in the marketing department and I also come from a creative background so he tried to find me work in those field, but unfortunately he's not connected to any of those fields that are hiring so he pressed the option of Staff Engineer onto me, and said they will send me to school for 6 months to learn ASICS. But I decided to look into it and see if I can learn it enough before I start, but now I am so overwhelmed. I told him this isn't something you can learn in 6 months with no prior background in electrical engineering!! But I'm desperate so I'm willing to learn. I would say that I can learn technical stuff, but not this is a completely new field for me so I have zero understanding of it. I have been learning about AI a lot and machine learning, that's as far as my technical brain works outside of 3D animation which I guess is technical as well but does not require coding. When I do, I just google it. I actually saved your zerotoasicourse a few days ago, but right now since I don't get paid much I wouldn't be able to afford that doing the current job I'm doing now. But I definitely will sign up IF I take the job. I hope I enjoy it, but reading and researching about it is giving me anxiety. I feel like I'm expected to learn something people learn in 4 years in just a few weeks, but I know this isn't an opportunity to pass as I've been reading that many people work hard just to get a chance at this. @@PsychogenicTechnologies
@@AndyHTu We're hitting on things that are much about personality and circumstance and, I don't know you so instead I'll tell you what I've had to tell myself a few times, and talk about what I found works for me.
I work well under pressure--some of my best has come out in crunches and actual real life emergencies. But there's a point a which it turns negative, into overwhelm and dismay, and then suddenly I'm ... out. Learning is fun. Cramming isn't. Trying to swallow a whole career field in two gulps probably won't be enjoyable and can lead to sadness/burnout/whatever. When I do hit these points, I'm lucky: my body just stops and won't let me go on. So, ok, I stop. And then I'll stay stopped.
Until, that is, I let curiosity come back in. Screw the project and the client and the deadline and the rent. When you're just wondering "how does that work?" or "could I possibly...?" or "I just want to see if I might ..." and then you read a 5 minute tutorial, and try something. And do something dumb, or explore some gadget. No one wants to watch my RF videos, but I'm still curious. So in moments like that, I just watch a 10 minute video, and then go muck around with a simulator or some actual components and try some things. Sometimes there's an epiphany. Sometimes it's just "huh". But learning happens when you get some focused play time. Then, sometimes, comes interest. And more play, and eventually you start getting good, which really gets motivating--then you get really good, after a while. And not much later, I'm back in full swing, hungry to do learn and make things and share the results.
So, if you want to give it a shot: go for it. But I'd try to be more curious than goal oriented for this. And if you can't find anything you're wondering about, sure give it a little time, watch some videos doing beginner projects (checkout bitluni for example but there's tons of entry level stuff here)... and if none of it ever sparks a spark, well that's ok. There are things that you are particularly suited to give to the world: try to give some of that away, whatever it is today. It's how I started 2 careers (so far).
Sorry if I sound like I think I'm the wiseoldmanonthemountain or something--I ain't. But I've been in both the highs and lows of this type of journey, so hope there's something in all the verbiage that will help.
Cheers
That actually was a beautiful comment and kind of got me a bit emotional inside. It has been a really rough 2 years for me. I thought everything was going great and then big lay offs ruined my trajectory. I'm actually on my second career as well. First being in the film and gaming industry as a 3d animator and visual effects artist, then I got into marketing where I did a lot of content marketing for about 10 years now. With this ASIC design, this would be my 3rd career but it's scary to me because I'm not a young buck anymore and the thought of having to go back to school and learn everything worries me and this time it is a totally different industry. I also had my own business but that too didn't go too well a few years a go so I closed down. And no need to apologize. Your wisdom is valuable to me! I've been blogging a lot as well and sharing my thoughts on the current creative industry but looks like I will be curiously watching these asic videos for now. I was given 2 choices, learn as much I can about asics in the first 2 weeks, then the second 2 weeks, learn about IC Layout, and see which one I would prefer. So this is my journey for now. He told me that with my design skills, I would adopt IC Layout faster, but I looked that up as well and its the same situation. You need a ton of education in electrical engineering and coding. @@PsychogenicTechnologies
Awesome!
Thanks! Busy summer but have more on the way on the ASIC front, too.
sir do you do internships
Hello Jose, well, not really. But if you have specific questions, lemme know. And if you're looking to bulk-up your resume, then my best suggestion is to find an open-source project that needs help or could be improved. You get to choose what you work on, and make life better for all of us, rather than run around getting coffee for bozos while being underpaid.
Not if from india or similar countries
Hello, is it possible to create an ASIC for mining cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and make it profitable? Energy efficient?
I would say it is possible to create such an ASIC, I made a SHA-256 digester as one of the TT projects (github.com/psychogenic/tt05-shaman) and there's no real limit to what you can do, functionally. Energy efficiency, well there you're talking about the physics of the thing and what you're likely going to need a newer/smaller process than the sky130 process the open stuff is using, so assume your investment will need to grow. And finally, profitability: I've no clue in that dept, don't know the cryptocurrency world, what it needs, what it can support.
@@PsychogenicTechnologies I found that some ASIC models use BM1368PB ASIC Chip, I don't know how many but I suppose several
Dude stop moving your camera