My first serious ASIC project 

6:38 The man places components in sync with the music 😎

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This reminds me of an EFTPOS project I did for a local retail suplier back around 2000. No HDL in that particular one but I had 2 SMD ATMEGAs on one PCB. One for custom keyboard management and LCD drive and one to drive a stepper motor, guilotine and thermal head of a recipt printer. I had to drive a whole line of pixels, over 500 of them. I found a character set I liked on line that wasn't proportionally spaced and downloaded the bitmap(olden times). Then I used visual basic to scan the characters and pixels into a look up table. I had to do vertical and horizontal expansion of the recorded character bits because otherwise the printing was too small. Got it working sweetly, scrolling out printed paper pretty fast. However although my customer paid me, he ran into trouble because of out of memory issues on the PCs. I figured out some time later that his PC custom software writing company likely used a microsoft common library comms driver that was later acknowleged by Microsoft to have a memory leak. However I think the memory leak destroyed his ability to get paid by his customer. Good work on the ASIC FPGA!

Nice. I wonder if you could build something like this into an umbrella and use it as a portable, lightweight screen. Yes, I just watched Kingsmen the other day.

You are living a dream life!

saw you working on this project at hackaday europe hut was to shy to say hi. me and my friend were guessing what the project was and we werent that far off. Keep it up dude

The project is awesome. Question for your next project. What process node are you planning to manufacture your custom RISC-V computer on and what would be the price for 1mm squared dye size? How many transistors can you approximately fit in there? Also, are you using an FPGA to prototype the chip design? If so, what model?

damn, i wish i had only 1% of your knowledge and skills..

Watching guys like you make some incredible boards makes me feel so...not smart 🤯

Awesome (as always)! I'm inspired :D

I just love it when you plug in your board and get nothing...cricket sounds. So now I know it's not just me!

I can recommend THT USB-C connectors for personal projects. Easier to solder an debug, I'm using the USB4085-GF-A.

it isn't a hologram though. it's persistence of vision

Great work. You might have killed the xtal on the ESP32 when you put it through the ultrasonic cleaner. ASIC design has come a long way from when I started in electronics. Verilog / HDL was quite new when I started, you normally had to get a library set from the ASIC vendor and then build out the required logic. I really wish you all the best

I definitely need to look at putting some of my fpga projects on one of these I hope to go onto proper asic design one day, so this could be a good start

Your projects are always soo cool!

Awesome work, Squeaktastic !!!!......cheers.

Amazing!

Cool!!! I want to try tinytapeout some time

Wow your skill is impressive

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Such a nice project! But if you want to build your own CPU why not start with using any of the softcores frameworks available?

Go easy on the ESP32, I have 4 running in my garden that have uptimes of 60+ days. 😉

nice

badass

The esp has an integrated hall effect does it not?

good

When I solder ESP32 by hand, I never put solder onto the thermal pad and never had any problem with it.

good service from Aisler? It was the worst company I had to deal with. They messed up a simple 4 layer PCB. More than half of boards had USB-C connectors with shorted or unconnected pins. It took them months to send us repaired boards and not all of them were fixed. At this point I stopped asking them to fix all of them because as a prototyping project, it was no longer relevant at this point. I had no problems with Eurocircuit.

I would love to subscribe to the chips as breakout boards, or see them on commercial products. Such a shame that they are so limited. I totally understand that they are on the side of a wafer that has a limited run, but still would be nice if they could run off a few thousand

and fpga with reasonable mass production would be much much better, the minor percentage of wafer are usage difference does no matter at all, when the fpga chips can be mass produced without thinking the end usage, the user can used it in whatever way freely. and you can also diy chips on a wafer, which is tons more interesting than just fab ordered chips delivered. current low costs fpga chips run at 400MHz or 800MHz by default. for hobby sake yep of course, but you can do stuff smarter too. any manufacturing should not be for "making living" but for free making of projects, opposite of making a living, ie freedom. then all the considerations of market money law nonsense will not make any factor in the reasonings and efficiency and usefulness. compare the programming/usage experience to arrow MAX1000. have a reel hanging pole like a dress hanger pole. lol. yep curse/blessing of asic is that you dont have to or cannot change the code logic. there needs to be the asic part of the fpga to load up the code. going fabless hmh.

nooo, you could have saved some cents by using the hal sensor inside the esp32 xD

This guy is GOD... 🙏

EMI shields are for noobs In all seriousness, this was a seriously impressive project! Just like all your other ones!

Speaking of FPGA boards, have you ever tried out the Tang nano 9k?

just out of curiosity, why make an ASIC and wait months when you can just program an FPGA?

What's an open source shared silicon? Is it like RISC-V chips?

Didn't you build your own pick and place machine so you don't have to worry about hand assembly anymore? 😅

Amazing. Although I want it to be able to access the Rick Roll graphic data...

What do you mean with esp32 tends to crash? kkkkk

Hi from Poland. Ile kosztuje zrobienie ASICa ??

using wifi websocket on esp32 is not that hard you know)

I miss the old Bitluni music😢

🎉🎉🎉🎉

awesome!

12:10 what's that supposed to mean? Release the source.

That's a bit looney!

2:30 a true chad use js, not python

Am i famous now? XD

I always make sure my resistors, etc., have the text oriented correctly. Am I the only one crazy enough to do that?

Awesome projects as always! keep it up : )

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