How to design your own microchip!!!
summary
Designs RTL in SystemVerilog, runs an open-source toolchain (make_harden) to synthesize and place-and-route, and targets the SkyWater 180 nm process (compare to 3 nm phones); the result is a chip that drives VGA and reads a PS/2 mouse and that comes back from the fab and sits on a desk. Layout runs in roughly 5 minutes to 30 hours, testing consumes about half the effort, and under one-third of tapeouts work.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18What a microchip is
- 3:23How to get a microchip manufactured
- 5:10Choosing the chip's function
- 6:13Chip design with code
- 7:15Code to physical layout
- 9:23Sending to fabrication
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