Tiny Tapeout

Tiny Tapeout makes it easier and cheaper than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

How do you know a chip works before it ships? 🧐

While the chips are in transit, we run some tests.

✅ First, we check that the chips power up and that we can enable and run the factory test design.

✅ Then we measure the delay between sending a signal in and getting it out, plus the resistance and bandwidth of the analog pins.

As we get more and better data, we use it to update the specifications page on the website and the data sheet.

When the chips arrive, the breakout boards are built and plugged into the development boards, and we run the factory tests again and check all the inputs and outputs 🕵🏼‍♂️

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/7xse9VUj2l ▶️

#TinyTapeout #Semiconductors #ChipDesign #OpenSource

[psychogenic @PsychogenicTech]

Great 1st of a 2-day @tinytapeout workshop at @IEEEorg CONCAPAN 2026 Guatemala (https://t.co/WEpWRM7d9z ). Everybody's on the sky130 shuttle, and tomorrow we mix it up with some HDL!

[Rahul Bhagwat @RahulBhagwat01]

jumped in my seat when i saw this, props to @tinytapeout for the help and @tnt4all for testing the chip!

[essen @essen463404]

Wrote a new blog post on building a fully custom open source networking switch ASIC chip.

https://t.co/bk0pkUxnYI

[pongsagon vichit @MattDIYgraphics]

Had a blast presenting on designing tiny ASIC GPUs at #Hackaday! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who came out or tuned in. ⚡️
Catch the full talk recording on YouTube: https://t.co/EKTuM3ngKs

[Matthew Venn @matthewvenn]

I designed a radio chip with Claude in 7 days. Alone it would’ve taken months.

But how do you use AI without skipping the learning?

On Friday I’m asking Harald Pretl and Carsten Wulff, analog designers and professors experimenting with AI.

What should I ask them?

[BSC-CNS @BSC_CNS]

💻Fantastic reception for the @tinytapeout workshop held a few days ago!

Led by Tiny Tapeout founder, Matt Venn, and Pat Deegan, this training was designed to teach participants how to build #chips from the ground.

In collaboration with Barcelona City Council

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

This week’s Chip of the Week was made by a 9-year-old! 🧒

Yup, you read that right.

Following instructions and a picture with a brief explanation given by his old man @splinedrive, this little designer built an 8-bit counter that counts up in binary on LEDs. Quite impressive!

Check it out here: https://t.co/FGo7cmoleM

What were you doing when you were 9 years old? 🤔

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

We had such a grand time at Chipathon 2026 in Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University) last October 16-18.

Thank you to everyone who joined and made this event possible. Looking forward to the next one! 😊

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/0dEimOTuQW

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

In partnership with https://t.co/qMCHxSCkD9, we are making a curated chip of the best Tiny Tapeout projects from the community around the world 🗺️

And now, we'd like to ask you to cast the sails and your vote!

Head over to https://t.co/WdWfffU30Q and let us know what designs you want to see on board.

Learn more: https://t.co/T1r2S0NKKA

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

Don't miss it! The 2026 @hackaday Superconference is happening soon 💥

20 talks covering everything from DOOM on an FPGA and tiny ASIC GPUs to open-source hardware, reverse engineering, and more!

📍 ArtCenter College of Design South Campus • Pasadena, CA
🗓️ Friday, November 6 to Sunday, November 8
🕙 10 AM-7:30 PM

Looking forward to seeing you there 😎

Tickets available here:
https://t.co/IqXOHLXUgR

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

As you venture into the night,
and tuck yourselves in bed,
may you dream of the Oscillating Bones,
21 SkullFETs spinning inside your head.
Around and around the signal goes,
a square wave through the night.
Sweet dreams from Tiny Tapeout
Happy All Hallows' Eve, goodnight 🎃

Design info ☠️ https://t.co/RSdQyvISt7
By: @UriShaked
See it spinning: https://t.co/KRDZKPNkRp

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

Check out the designs here:
Mini MOSBius - https://t.co/w6qT2U4pC2
Tiny FABulous FPGA - https://t.co/PJjIrIHidw
TinyQV RISCV - https://t.co/8nI6213ORt
Glyph Mode - https://t.co/ujiaqXIjfw

Learn more about our Tiny Tapeout competitions: https://t.co/mLkQWB1DAZ

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

🛳️ WE'RE BUILDING THE BOAT!

We're bringing together the best designs from Tiny Tapeout in partnership with https://t.co/qMCHxSCSsH.

This includes Mini Mosbius (an analog FPGA for learning analog microelectronics), a tiny FPGA from Leo Moser and the Fabulous team, chip of the week selections, the winners of the different competitions we’ve had, like the TinyQV RISCV by Mike Bell and Glyph Mode by James Ross, and ⭐️COMMUNITY FAVOURITES!⭐️

Now the question: Which designs deserve a place on the BOAT? 👀

If you have a favourite design you want to see included, let us know! (even if it's your own!)

Submit here: https://t.co/WdWfffUAQo ⬅️

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

What if a chip could render a "3D" view inspired by Wolfenstein 3D without a framebuffer? 🤔

This week’s Chip of the Week is raybox-zero by Anton Maurovic. It uses ray casting to render a textured 3D-like view of a map, racing the beam to generate the picture live as the VGA signal is sent.

Check it out here: https://t.co/AWjF3l1I69

What do you think is the coolest part of this design? 🤔

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

Last time we shared how a chip gets built layer by layer inside the fab through the process of #photolithography.

Next up, the transistors need to be wired together 🔌

This video follows the back end of line process, where up to seven layers of aluminium wires connect all the MOSFETs into the circuit that was designed. We also get into why chip manufacturing takes soooooo long, and what a “hot lot” is.

Watch it here: https://t.co/jPwHW2XXPe

#TinyTapeout #Semiconductors #ChipDesign #OpenSource

[Matthew Venn @matthewvenn]

Any FPGA / ASIC / Hardware people in #shenzhen want to attend the inaugural open source silicon meetup?

@MaxClerkwell will be among the great presenters.

[psychogenic @PsychogenicTech]

The @hackaday #Supercon 10th edition is coming up fast and, though the full schedule's not up yet, the @tinytapeout workshop is ON and will be on Friday 6th: Come! Make a chip! It's going to be fun :)
Add that TinyTapeout workshop or other extras at https://t.co/pH5y4Q9tX9

[Tiny Tapeout @tinytapeout]

Last month, Tiny Tapeout did a 2-day workshop at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, plus had an exhibit at the @ArtSciMuseum.

Thank you to Vensa for the invitation, to the ArtScience Museum for showcasing us, and to everyone who attended!

Read the full article here: https://t.co/9rN7xZhrTU

[William Zhang @william_zhang20]

For a cool record I'll paste a nice image of my Tiny TPU chip rendered in Tiny Tapeout. Actual size is 320 by 100 microns.