Enter the competition here: tinytapeout.com/competitions...

A legendary hacker with a gift for making hardware do things it was never meant to - Sprite has ported Doom to a Rigol scope, built a Vectrex multi cart, and built the Hackaday FPGA badge - all with the kind of deranged ingenuity that makes him a natural judge for our ASIC demoscene competition.

Will runs Project F, an FPGA and hardware education site covering graphics pipelines, VGA timing, framebuffers, and RISC-V. His tutorials have helped countless people bridge the gap from software to FPGAs - making him a perfect judge for designs that push display hardware to its limits.

A self-taught chip designer and inventor, Jeri is legendary in the hardware community for squeezing a complete Commodore 64 inside a joystick. She also pioneered DIY semiconductor fabrication, the first person to demonstrate building a transistor using household items.

Jeri in front of a pinball machine pointing to a resistor on her cool tshirt

Sprite wearing 'I are a programmer' tshirt

Will with his feet up in front a pair of monitors showing hello world from his FPGA graphics system

Meet the awesome judges of our #ASIC demoscene competition: @jeriellsworth.bsky.social, @willflux.bsky.social and Sprite_tm!

tinytapeout.com/competitions...

#opensource #ASIC #competition

ASIC plugged into a monitor showing the Trans flag

Happy Trans day of visibility from a Tiny Tapeout ASIC!

Announcing the second Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition!

Free silicon space for all entrants!

tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Our Community Built a Chip. Tom Put It in Space. YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

Our community built a chip. Tom put it in space.

New interview with the CEO of AlbaOrbital - the Scottish startup that's launched more satellites than most countries, with zero government funding.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVeH...

We live in a world where billions of transistors sit in our pockets - yet most of us never stop to think about how chips are actually designed or made.

Join us on Tuesday 10th to learn how to make your own!

tinytapeout.com/swisschips2026

Happy to announce I won the European Open Source Academy Special Recognition for Skills and Education! @eosa.bsky.social

www.zerotoasiccourse.com/post/eosa_aw...

What if you could design your own microchip - and actually have it manufactured? Free if you live in switzerland! 🇨🇭

Get started with this 1 hour online workshop.

Go to tinytapeout.com/swisschips2026 to sign up!

Learn chip design by creating your own! We’re running a free 1-hour online webinar to show you how to get started with chip design and submit for fabrication. No prior chip design experience required. In the session, we’ll cover: - How t...

Switzerland has an incredible engineering community, so we’d love to see more #Swiss designs on silicon.

Tuesday, 10th March at 18:00 CET we’re running a free webinar to show you how to get started with chip design and submit for free fabrication.

tinytapeout.com/swisschips2026

Tiny Tapeout - Tiny Tapeout Tiny Tapeout makes it more accessible than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

4/5 Congratulations to everyone and thanks to @tinytapeout.com for making this possible! Never have imagined doing a (winning) demoscene entry in 2026 on ASIC. This is beyond wild. I was last involved in demoscene in ~1999, I dearly miss these days. TT makes all the fun come back.

tinytapeout.com

Very happy to announce the winners of our demoscene competition! 🏆

We had some amazing entries - check out what can be done in just a few square microns of silicon!

tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Thanks again to our judges and participants!

#silicon #demoscene #ASIC

Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners will be announced! YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners!

www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

For our 12th Yosys User’s Group we’re inviting your questions! What have you always wanted to ask the team?

- Formal verification
- Synthesis
- Plugins / internals
- How to contribute
- Roadmap

Join us at 18:00 CET / 22:30 IST / 09:00 PT on Thursday 12th February.

Warp (tt08 demo submission) YouTube video by sylefeb

How can you fit a retro tunnel effect with a sound track in 161x225 μm of silicon? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOY...

Checkout my detailed write up on making a demo entry to the @tinytapeout.com tt08 competition: github.com/sylefeb/tt08...

#asic #fpga #graphics #hardware

Amazing graphics and audio, all packed into just a few square microns of silicon.

And don’t miss the incredible entries here:
tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Finally, we’re ready to announce the demoscene competition winners! 🎉

Join us live on Wednesday the 11th at 19:00 CET to find out who won—and to hear how our amazing judges chose the winners.

Click “Notify me” on the stream to get an alert when we go live:
www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...

Warp (tt08 demo submission) YouTube video by sylefeb

2/3) Amazingly my two entries work: 'Warp' and 'WhyNot' ; 'Warp' is my entry to the demoscene competition and 'WhyNot' was a crazy "let's do it in one day" last minute entry. Both work on actual ASIC!! How cool is that?

Preview of Warp: youtu.be/ELOYGwZgHnw

Fly through video for ROM-less Cordic Engine design.

This design is on TTSKY25A shuttle by @tinytapeout.com

Made easy with BlenderGDS plugin - github.com/aesc-silicon...

@mattvenn.net @urishaked.bsky.social @aksharvastarpara.bsky.social

LIVE: Casual Making YouTube video by bitluni live

1/3) Wow, TT08 @tinytapeout.com including all demoscene entries landed and I had no clue, imagine my surprise discovering all the fantastic demos (see below, thx bitluni!) on actual hardware. Kudos to all contributors and the team!!

youtube.com/watch?v=A9BhSaqL7jg

Tiny Tapeout - Tiny Tapeout Tiny Tapeout makes it more accessible than ever to get your designs manufactured on a real chip!

3/3 You too can make it, it is not easy, but not as hard as you might think, checkout @tinytapeout.com here:

tinytapeout.com/

Happy to announce that Anton Maurovic's "Antonalog analog VGA" design on our experimental chip TTIHP0.3 has been tested and is working!

www.tinytapeout.com/chips/ttihp0...

#opensource #ASIC #TinyTapeout

Graph shows frequency over time - why do you think it has a ~3 minute oscillation?

What if I tell you the signal comes from a skull shaped ring oscillator?

This open source silicon is currently sending data from low earth orbit, 500km up!

And the satellite is slowly spinning!

Yes, that’s a GDSII render.
Yes, it’s inside Blender.
Yes, it’s our design on TTSKY25A chip.
@tinytapeout.com @mattvenn.net @urishaked.bsky.social

Surviving Space: Radiation, Bit Flips, and Naked Silicon YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

We sent an ASIC to space.

Then we asked a nuclear engineer what would happen to it.

A deep dive into radiation, bit flips, orbital hot spots, and what it really takes for silicon to survive in low Earth orbit.

youtu.be/FJE5eBg7iQ4

Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview with Tibor Herman and Pat Deegan YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course

Design: tinytapeout.com/chips/tt06/t...
Interview with Tibor and Pat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRuB...

Graph shows frequency over time - why do you think it has a ~3 minute oscillation?

What if I tell you the signal comes from a skull shaped ring oscillator?

This open source silicon is currently sending data from low earth orbit, 500km up!

And the satellite is slowly spinning!

Then somehow we recovered, sent 12 chips to be manufactured, sent 1 chip into space and gained access to another fab!

Read my review of 2025 and goals for 2026 here: zerotoasiccourse.com/post/year_up...