Hackaday: When hackers found and developed ways to order PCBs on the cheap, it revolutionized the way we create. Accessible 3D printing brought us entire new areas to create things. [Matt Venn] is one of the people at the forefront of hackers designing our own silicon, and we’ve covered plenty of his research over the years. His latest effort to involve the hacker community, TinyTapeout, makes chip design accessible to newcomers – the bar is as low as arranging logic gates on a web browser page.
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I just think that the fact that we can 3D print full on computer chips is really cool. The accessibility this brings to innovate and create opens up a whole new world for a lot of people in terms of creating cost-effective mini-chips and teaching people about manufacturing and chip design. Tiny Tapeout’s goal is to make this kind of research and development more accessible to all, and it seems like they are taking concrete steps towards their goal. Looking at the difference between all of the chips entered is really interesting - some using the full capacities of the chip with a very complicated one, and some with a simpler iteration of the chip. It’s fascinating to see how people’s design, creativity and logic combine to create these chips, and I’m really glad that this knowledge is becoming more accessible and easy to learn. I might look into these workshops!
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