
DIY Silicon!
BEASTY BOARDS: Design Your Own Chips
Matt Venn
50 makezine.com
Now you can design and manufacture
your own custom chips — for cheap
Written by Gareth Halfacree
Chip designs submitted
through Matt Venn’s
programs are sent for
production onto wafers
like this one.
GARETH
HALFACREE
is a noted
technology
journalist based
in Bradford, UK.
He’s the author of
user guides for the
Raspberry Pi, Pico,
and BBC micro:bit,
and an expert
in educational
and embedded
computing.
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