Make: Volume 87

Zero to ASIC Course

SkyWater’s open PDK was exactly the catalyst

Venn needed to launch an educational course to

bring chip design to a wider audience who, like

Venn himself, had probably never considered that

they could hold a self-designed chip in their hand.

“I did a talk about it for Hackaday Remoticon —

this was in the pandemic,” Venn explains. He

asked participants if they’d pay $500 to learn

how to design chips and get them made, and 200

signed up. “So I was like, ‘Okay, I mean, let’s go!’

and then I spent one month solidly working and

recording videos and writing up on my experience

and launched the Zero to ASIC Course, and

haven’t look ...