Sri Harsha Vardhan

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@wladek60 Is 55nm node is the lowest in open source?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@VazeKshitij How to improve my shtyy communication skills,🫠🫪

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@AnantJ2006 @VazeKshitij Wow

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@AlexRod0003 How much is it costing you overall?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@AnantJ2006 @VazeKshitij You started to study ic design, that's really great! Which year are you from bro?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@Vicharak_In I have used shrike-lite and its good. but for better applications since more LUTs are needed, can Vicharak work on a full on FPGA, with 20k LUTs,(something like tang nano 20K)

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@VazeKshitij 🥲Maybe I'll know when I become one

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@gojimmypi @tinytapeout That's great, thanks for the info. Also can I know what you are using it for?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@ico_TC @S2SmeX @Vicharak_In @regymm0 When can these boards be released tentatively?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@Rishike89765470 @datavorous_ There is a competition about kernels?! Wow!!

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@VazeKshitij Perfectly right. I guess people should find their own answers and ask for suggestions.

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@khushiirl What do you do?

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@Rishike89765470 @cheese_cakee_9 Making Ultron is cool until one of the Ultron bots park in front of our homes.

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@TopCurlsoid @ico_TC @Ryuz88 Thanks!

[Amar Govindarajan @amargov]

One of the most fun things you'll read this week:

A bunch of @iitbombay 20-somethings spent their college year building an actual semiconductor fab of sorts. They're now weeks from their first working transistor.

Technically it's a "hacker fab".
-basically a semiconductor fab you build in a college for not a lot of money (it's hard work though)
-it makes scrappy chips but who's asking state of art
-open source framework that started in the West.
-only some seven such fabs exist
-the IIT-B one is first outside West.

What @hackerfabindia have built:
-lithography machine = an old projector with the optics flipped, printing at 3–4 microns (a human hair is ~100)
-a 1,100°C furnace built by two first-years from cement, ceramic wool and 50m of resistance wire
-a sputter built in-house
-a vacuum chamber

Whole toolkit:
-Rs 15–20 lakh - roughly a campus racing team's annual budget
-First devices (a diode and a MOSCAP) came off their own tools on 12 June
-Full transistor due by end of summer
-2nd in the world to do it on the open HackerFab framework

Tagline:
Why should TSMC have all the fun? 😎 (good one @aryamman_bhatia & team)

@astrokaran's story 👇

https://t.co/EWcBnKDoPv

[Sri Harsha Vardhan @Pav192099]

@ChocotiCass That's a really good insight, are you in the vlsi industry already?