My new personal site solves chip macro placement using simulated annealing in-browser.. lol https://t.co/uv4nF4OvZX

@JeffDean I tried emailing the authors and they have not fixed it after a month.

It is currently impossible to recreate the Google Circuit Training (AlphaChip) results. https://t.co/Q0dNb0yUO3 The pre-trained model checkpoint links are dead on the github repository, along with the version of DREAMPlace used to do placement. Pls fix @JeffDean

Won third place @extropic 's hackathon. Image denoising using their thrml library.

Pretty tapeout. This sucker runs at 25Mhz. ~65K instances. Sky130 EFabless Caravel

https://t.co/Ijh46tylV6

My tapeout is always 1 month away

My dream is to build the RenTec of chip design tools

every chip designer hates Cadence's tools. but for decades, startups have failed to disrupt them. this week on the blog: why? it has less to do with tech, and more to do with their unique relationship with TSMC and other fabs... ⬇️

I can’t stand using legacy EDA tools anymore because ours are so fast. I’m used to speed at this point.

I met a startup using GPUs for something that's neither their original purpose (graphics) nor AI. This seems an interesting territory. Like dolphins surfing in the bow wave of AI.