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eyebrow: "" # short line above the headline; blank to hide
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heading: Put your class on silicon from €70 a student
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body: >-
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Students submit designs onto regular shuttles with a few clicks. Hundreds of
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designs are combined into a multi project chip and manufactured on an open
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source PDK. The cohort shares a set of easy to use demoboards to test their
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designs.
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Students submit designs onto regular shuttles with a few clicks. Hundreds
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are combined into a multi project chip and manufactured on an open source
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PDK. The cohort shares a set of easy to use demoboards for bring-up and test.
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photo_alt: Tiny Tapeout demoboard with a QFN-64 packaged ASIC on a breakout board
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photo_caption: ""
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features:
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- kicker: 01 · Curriculum
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title: Teaching material included
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body: >-
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Workshops, a digital design guide, HDL templates and worked testbenches,
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plus open IP to teach from: a RISC-V CPU, an FPGA and an analog FPGA.
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- kicker: 02 · IT footprint
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title: Nothing to install
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body: >-
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The flow runs in GitHub Actions. Any student laptop with a browser is
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enough — no lab images, no EDA seats, no licence server.
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- kicker: 03 · Cohort
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- kicker: 01 · Cohort
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title: One board serves many
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body: >-
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A single demoboard selects any project on the die over USB, so a class
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shares hardware instead of buying one board per student.
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- kicker: 04 · Process
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- kicker: 02 · IT footprint
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title: Nothing to install
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body: >-
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The flow can run in a GitHub Action. Any student laptop with a browser is
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enough. A Docker image is available for local development.
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- kicker: 03 · Process
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title: Three PDKs, no NDAs
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body: >-
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SkyWater SKY130, IHP sg13g2 and GlobalFoundries gf180mcu — 10+ shuttles a
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year across the three open-source PDKs.
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- kicker: 05 · I/O
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- kicker: 04 · I/O
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title: 26 pins, plus analog
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body: >-
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Clock, reset, 8 dedicated inputs, 8 dedicated outputs and 8 bidirectional
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pins — plus up to 6 analog pins where the process allows.
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- kicker: 06 · Flexibility
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pins — plus up to 6 analog pins for mixed signal support.
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- kicker: 05 · Flexibility
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title: Use your own EDA tools
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body: >-
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Any toolchain, commercial or open source, as long as the GDS and LEF can
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be published. Verilog officially supported, VHDL and Chisel by the
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community.
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- kicker: 06 · Curriculum
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title: Teaching material included
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body: >-
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Workshops, a digital design guide, HDL templates and worked testbenches,
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plus open IP to teach from: a RISC-V CPU, an FPGA and an analog FPGA.
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quotes:
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@@ -144,10 +143,9 @@ faq:
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- q: How does this fit our academic calendar?
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a: >-
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Fabrication takes 6–9 months and delivery up to a year, so a design
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submitted in one academic year returns in the next. That return becomes
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a bring-up module in its own right: students test parts documented by
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their peers, where gaps in testing and documentation show up
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immediately.
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submitted in one academic year may return in the next. Universities use it
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to create a bring-up module: students test parts documented by
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their peers, growing lab skills and highlighting the importance of DFT.
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- q: How do we pay?
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a: >-
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We invoice institutions directly, accept purchase orders and issue
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available.
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- q: Do our students need prior experience?
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a: >-
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No. The guided workshops take a beginner from logic gates to a submitted
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design, and thousands of past projects are public to learn from.
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No. Guides and videos take beginners through creating designs to submission.
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Thousands of past projects are already published to learn from.
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- q: Who owns the work?
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a: >-
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Every design is published publicly under Apache-2.0, so Tiny Tapeout
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