A netlist is a machine readable file that contains all the connections between all the components in your design. They are one of the outputs of a Synthesis tool like Yosys. These examples are taken...

A Multi Project Wafer is used to reduce the cost of making an ASIC. By using a lot of different designs on the same wafer the Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs of making the mask set are shared...

A MOSFET is a type of transistor we can use as a digital switch. The name stands for Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor. The first MOSFET was made in 1959 by Mohamed M. Atalla & Dawon...

From Wikipedia: A photomask is an opaque plate with holes or transparencies that allow light to shine through in a defined pattern. They are commonly used in photolithography and the production of...

From its homepage: Magic is a venerable VLSI layout tool, written in the 1980’s at Berkeley by John Ousterhout, now famous primarily for writing the scripting interpreter language Tcl. Due largely in...

From http://88physicaldesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/what-is-macro.html: Macros are intellectual properties that you can use in your design. You do not need to design it. For example, memories, proces...

We did explicitly ask for projects that use a 555 timer for the One Hertz Challenge, but we weren’t expecting the 555 to be the project. Yet, here we are, with [matt venn]’s Open Source…

Layout vs Schematic

An Integrated Circuit is a collection of circuit elements all together on one piece of silicon. Example elements include: transistors, for example MOSFETS resistors capacitors inductors Here is an...