README.md

ChipCraft: The Art of Chip Design

This repository contains materials for the course: "ChipCraft: The Art of Chip Design for Non-Experts", offered by the National Micro-Electronics Security Training Center in partnership with Efabless and Redwood EDA.

Special thanks also to the Tiny Tapeout team and thousands of open-source contributors for making this experience possible.

Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Slides
• Nandgame
• Wokwi Starting Template for Tiny Tapeout
• Matt Venn's "Microchip Manufacturing - How computer chips get made!" Video
• Starting-point code for:
  • Calculator
  • Calculator in Module 4
  • CPU
  • Empty Template for Final Projects
  • Reference designs, other starter templates, and past projects
• Reference solutions (Ctrl-Click for new tab)
• Handouts
  • Instructions for Programming Your FPGA and Taping Out Your ASIC
  • RISC-V Decode Tables
  • Human CPU Cards

Communication

• Join/Open open-source-silicon.dev Slack workspace (use private class channel).
• Contact instructors:
  • Steve Hoover: LinkedIn, email, TL-Verilog Slack
  • Mohamed Kassem: LinkedIn, email

Credits

• National Micro-Electronics Security Training Center Offers this and many other courses.
• Efabless: Delivers this course and the chipIgnite Shuttle program, which, in collaboration with Google and Skywater, provides low-cost silicon tapeouts.
• Tiny Tapeout: Enables an ultra-low-cost path to silicon leveraging the chipIgnite Shuttle program including the Wokwi-based design environment, build flows, and boards (designed by Psychogenic Technologies) that are used in this course.
• Redwood EDA: Provides course instruction, content, and the Makerchip platform for TL-Verilog-based design.
• Hundreds of open-source contributors responsible for the open-source EDA tools and flows utilized in this course.