[DARARepeater] Raspberry Pi 5 Demo tonight

[Jeremy Hong]

Hello all,

Due to the elevated level of interest in the Raspberry Pi 5 test drive last
night (there wasn’t really a presentation). I propose a formal presentation
on Nov 9th.

I will be out on the 2nd of November for Hackaday Superconference in
Pasadena, CA, and I may do a presentation on this as well.

Folks might be interested in the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated
Circuit) training course I will be taking at this conference. In summary…
for the last 2-3 years Google and Skywater Technology have provided a fully
open source PDK (process design kit) for designing custom chips (yes custom
silicon!) and has brought down the cost of this kind of development from
millions of dollars down to $100 (1 tile (~1000 logic gates)+ PCB). If you
wanted a more complex design, you can buy additional tiles for $50. The
feature size is 130 nm, despite not being cutting edge for digital chips,
it’s still amazing that this program exists. It may not be at the bleeding
edge like the iPhone 15’s 3nm ARM processor, but for reference many analog
and RFIC chips are still manufactured at 90nm - 300 nm, and from prior work
experience the price to produce those chips are still in the upper $100k to
millions.

The only condition/string attached is that the design you submit is open
sourced (i.e the netlist)

This is the course:
https://tinytapeout.com/
Here’s a news article:
https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/tiny-tapeout-5-opens-for-submissions/


Happy hacking and 73 de KD8TUO


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From: Jeremy Hong <jhong at hongseleco.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Raspberry Pi 5 Demo tonight
To: <dararepeater at mailman.qth.net>


Hello all,

Last minute email before TNG tonight, I just got the new Raspberry Pi 5 in
the mail this afternoon, and will be doing an informal/unofficial demo
tonight.

Hope to see you there!

73 de KD8TUO
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