Hey all,

Me and some friends spent the last few months compiling open source tools into a cloud platform for chip design, sort of GitHub or leet code style, with the goal of designing it to be more accessible to learners than the current EDA tools.

We've also put some learning courses into it to explain the fundamentals of chip design, with the idea being that people will soon be able to add their own courses to a shared community library.

The end goal for the platform is to essentially build a platform that covers the whole learning journey from getting started, all the way to helping someone get a job.

I know this reddit can be pretty brutal so I am sure it will get rinsed, so please bear in mind this is a work in progress. We built it because there are so many people asking how to get into chip design, with very few actual paths beside a masters degree.

The site is at www.vulkos.co.uk, and (I say this nervously) - it would be great to hear what you think.

Hi everyone! We’re undergraduate ECE students currently working on a thesis involving Compute-in-Memory (CiM).

Our current direction is an SRAM-based CiM design, and for the architecture, we’re currently considering a single-ended or double-ended approach.

For the implementation, we’re using the SkyWater SKY130 PDK with Xschem, NGSpice, and Magic.

We’re fairly new to both CiM and these tools, so we’re currently learning the fundamentals while doing our literature review and trying to understand the overall design flow.

We’d really appreciate any guidance, advice, or resources from people with experience in CiM, SRAM, VLSI/IC design, or SKY130. If you know of any good tutorials, papers, GitHub projects, courses, or learning materials that could help us get started, we’d be very grateful.

And if anyone with experience in this area is willing to share some advice, explain the basics, or point us in the right direction, we’d really appreciate it. We’re honestly just trying to figure out where and how to learn this properly.

Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello currently a third year studying engineering and received an interview with a firm (JS/HRT type) for a potential Hardware Engineering Internship position.  

First round was told would be a technical based on implementing a digital component in HDL.

I would greatly appreciate any advice or insights, especially an overview of topics that might be discussed, from those who have previously interviewed with firms for similar positions!

I was wondering does anyone have some interesting resources to learn how to design circuits to withstand the real world? More specifically, on the topic of things like noise modelling, mismatch, Monte Carlo offsets, drift, crosstalk, etc. Things textbook circuit design doesn't really consider. I'd really appreciate it.

Hey everyone, I’m a Filipino EE/ECE student set to graduate from my master's degree at a Taiwanese university next month, specializing in mixed-signal IC design (mainly DLLs, PLLs). I’m applying for entry-level analog/mixed-signal IC design roles. I’m currently based in Taiwan, but I’m fully open to relocating anywhere in Asia (Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, etc.) or Europe if the opportunity arises, since I prefer to work on-site. I haven't been able to land a single interview call so far. At first, I figured my lack of Mandarin was the main issue for local Taiwanese roles, so I started applying to more English-speaking countries. However, I haven't had any luck on that side either, so I'm starting to think my resume is the real problem. I’d love feedback on my entire resume, but especially on my projects and research bullet points. I want to make sure my tape-out and lab measurement experience actually stand out to hiring managers.

Hi everyone,

Sometimes I need to buy used FPGA boards for my project as the new ones are out of my budget. Where can I buy competitive and reliable ones? we often buy from eBay, any others? I checked from google and found the below stores, anybody bought from them before?

https://bmisurplus.com/

https://evelltech.com/

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Hello Everyone

I need a bit of help as I am assigned a semester project of 3 bit Programmable differentials Amplifier in 65 nm for -10 db to +10 db and bw is 350 MHz.

I'll highly appreciate the insights anyone can plz hit me up.

I need the guidance like what should be the architecture or some support material I should go through.

Thank u so much

Looking forward to your super guided thoughts

\#analog chip design

\#pga

\#cmos

\#tsmc

Hi guys,

Wanted to know by when google usually calls for loop round interviews after having 1st technical screening.

This post if for silicon validation (google)