Received silicon from #sky130_mpw1 *just* before Christmas. Thanks to @efabless and @google for sponsoring! Even with the known mpw1 issues, I’m still excited to see how much I can prove works. Now to develop some SMD reflow skills 😂

I’ll admit, I bought this on a bit of a lark, because I saw a couple other Twitter folks had purchased it, and because I’ve always enjoyed implementing small languages. Only a few pages in, I’m already loving it!

Really enjoying hooking up my functional-verification regression to the Allure (docs.qameta.io/allure/) test-reporting framework.

I'm continuing to work on SoC-integration test infrastructure -- this time to simplify synchronizing between the embedded-sw test and the test harness: bitsbytesgates.blogspot.com/…

I've been exploring how embedding higher-level debug and analysis instrumentation into reusable IPs can impact SoC verification and validation. The blog-post below goes through some of the mechanics. bitsbytesgates.blogspot.com/…

Very happy to have completed my submission for the first @efabless/@Google/@SkyWaterFoundry MPW shuttle run. Many thanks to the @fabless team for their support! It's been a great learning experience.

Hey, @FossiFoundation, looks like we've got some technical issues registering for LatchUp ;-)

Interested in using Python (and Cocotb) for verification, and need a high-performance BFM? Writing task-based Cocotb BFMs is easier than you might think. Learn more in my latest blog post: bitsbytesgates.blogspot.com/…

Task-based interaction with Python boosts performance. Learn more about getting access to this in Cocotb here: bitsbytesgates.blogspot.com/…

Looking forward to DVCon Europe in a couple weeks! If you’re attending, I’d love to chat about portable stimulus and the state of verification today. Hope to see you there!