Silicon Road
The course may be over, but the exploration is not.
Taking this course felt like a bus ride where you take a short journey where you get briefed on many of the important things there are to know. Then you get dropped off in unknown territory and the bus drives aways. Looking around with the good information and tools you were given this becomes an exciting place to explore.
It feels endless and now you have time. Along the way you have also met other like-minded people who share the same curiosity and passion for this field.
This section is where I continue exploring chip design beyond the course. I have a road-map of things I want to try and learn, and I will keep updating it as the journey continues.
The Silicon Road-map
├─ Experiments
│ ├─ Running designs on FPGA
│ ├─ Trying other RISC-V cores
│ ├─ Explore OpenROAD deeper
│ └─ Exploring other PDKs
├─ Tools
│ ├─ Tiny Tapeout
│ ├─ SiliconCompiler
│ ├─ xschem
| ├─schemdraw
│ └─ Magic
└─ Ideas
├─ Tiny microcontroller
├─ Custom peripherals
└─ Weird chip experiments
See you down the road.