TinyTapeout: Get your design on an actual ASIC

[bajsejohannes]

For anyone who wants to dip their toe in integrated circuits (ASIC), this project provides a way to get a tiny (~200 gate) project onto a physical chip. You can do the whole thing in the browser. Deadline for submission is September 1st.

[ahmadmijot]

Are you the author? I've read the slides but can't find the details. What kind cell library this project use? I know from someone in the IC design industry said that it's kind of hard to access all the tools and semiconductor IPs without some kind of NDA or agreement with library vendors and foundry.

[alain94040]

What can one do with 200 gates? I struggle to think of anything interesting.

[jononor]

200 gates.. Wonder if one could make a simple ADC with this, say a 8-bit successive approximation (SAR) with I2C registers for readout?

[jononor]

A PWM LED constant-current driver with one-wire bus protocol. Would one only need 2 conductors, for combined power and digital control.

[klondike_]

This already exists in commercially available form (WS2811 for example). But it might make an interesting learning exercise