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