Hi
I am very happy to announce that Mohammad Amin from Behyaar Corp. R&D Engineer has successfully delivered his project VSDBabySoC to Tapeout World initiative. Mohammad A. Nili has completed his study in field of Computer Architecture and Design and received his B.S. degree from Shahed University back in 2016. His main interests are computer architecture, physical design, and EDA tool
design. He has a good knowledge about open-source EDA tools and flows (e.g. OpenLANE).
Mohammad joined VSD as a part of 8-week Hardware Design Program (HDP), which is specially designed for anyone looking to reach utmost level of VLSI (which is tapeout) from scratch. When Mohammad joined, he was pretty novice and fresher in semiconductors, trying to figure out complex problem statements. But now, after 8-weeks of HDP, I must say he can be easily compared to an experienced VLSI professional. Why? In span of 8-weeks, not only did he got trained in VLSI, but
also developed VSDBabySoC which comprises of avsdPLL, avsdDAC and small RISC-V core.
Mixed signal flow is something where opensource tools needs some amount of work, and Mohammad was given the task to fix the mixed-signal flow in just 8-weeks along with VLSI training and research. His work on VSDBabySoC is now a reference design for all mixed-signal projects using opensource or commercial tools, for VSD trainings and hackathon purposes
Special Thanks to Shivani Shah from IIIT Bangalore and Steve Hoover from Redwood EDA for his support on RISC-V core rvmyth. Shivani and Steve have been a long time partner with VSD and their creative techniques of building tools has been helping students worldwide, now Iran
One unique thing about VSDBabySoC is - the RISC-V core is build by students, avsdPLL is build by students and avsdDAC is also build by students. I must say this is real democratization in VLSI and Semiconductors - for the student, of the student, by the student.
Finally, last but not the least, a big Thanks to Naveed Sherwani, Mike Wishart and Shrikanth Lohokere for the igniting the idea of "Tapeout World" which is really motivating students around the world to not only get trained, but also build chips while getting trained.
Read below blog for more details (especially look at his github repo)
Stay tuned for Tapeout Nigeria, Tapeout India and Tapeout Netherlands
