The GOMACTech conference was established primarily to review developments in microcircuit applications for government systems. Established in 1968, the conference has focused on advances in systems being developed by the Department of Defense and other government agencies and has been used to announce major government microelectronics initiatives such as VHSIC and MIMIC, and provides a forum for government reviews.
To shed light on the state of open source chip design tools, Zero ASIC has created the open source Silicon Compiler dashboard.
Barring natural (and unnatural) disaster, Zero ASIC has just secured funding for the next 5 years!
We presented Switchboard at WOSET-24, successfully demonstrating RTL simulation of a million-core system on thousands of cloud compute cores. The total time to build the design and simulate a distributed matrix multiplication was under 15 minutes, demonstrating the agility of our approach.
We presented Switchboard at WOSET-24, successfully demonstrating RTL simulation of a million-core system on thousands of cloud compute cores. The total time to build the design and simulate a distributed matrix multiplication was under 15 minutes, demonstrating the agility of our approach.
The DoE sponsored 2024 Workshop on Basic Research Needs for Energy-Efficient Computing for Science will identify priority research directions in energy-efficient computing for science.
Zero ASIC is excited to be part of the University of Texas at Austin led team developing the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense.
Presenting the open source Switchboard project at Latch-Up 2024
Presenting the open source UMI protocol at Latch-Up 2024
Zero ASIC proudly announces Logik, a lightweight open source FPGA RTL-to-bitstream flow powered by Zero ASIC's Silicon Compiler solution for circuit design automation flow control. Logik enables users to generate bitstreams for FPGAs with a Python-driven, single execution step by sequencing the execution of multiple open source tools in an FPGA CAD tool chain. To demonstrate Logik's capabilities, Zero ASIC has distributed a sample eFPGA architecture of their own design for which users can generate bitstreams and simulate in the cloud using Zero ASIC's digital twin platform.
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Composable chiplets represent a powerful new design approach with the potential of disrupting a large portion of the semiconductor market. This month I will be presenting ideas for how chiplets can be applied to a number of critical applications.
Today, Zero ASIC is releasing a demo that shows how to create a custom EBRICK, a chiplet that can plug into our SiP design ecosystem. The demo can be found on GitHub.
Chiplets are all the rage these days, even making MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024. This is pretty incredible for such a niche technology! Unfortunately, as of today chiplets are only accessible to semiconductor mega-corps. To unlock the true power of disaggregated chiplet innovation, we need to drastically reduce the barriers to chiplet based design.
We are pleased to announce the open source release of zaui, our npm-installable SvelteKit toolchain for building websites from markdown.
Zero ASIC is thrilled to announce Switchboard, a high-performance open-source framework for communication between RTL simulations, FPGA emulations, Python, and C++. Switchboard makes it possible to simulate large hardware systems in a distributed fashion, using a wide variety of model types, and to interact with the modeled systems from popular software languages.
Do you think chiplets are tasty? I think I’ve just seen the future of chiplet-based design—well, one possible future—and it looks finger-licking good to me. Just to make sure we are all tap-dancing to the same skirl of the bagpipes, let’s start by setting the scene. For the purposes of these discussions, we will take the term integrated circuit (IC) to refer to a honking big ASIC, ASSP, SoC… that sort of thing.
Zero ASIC, a semiconductor startup, today came out of stealth to announce early access to its one-of-a-kind design and emulation platform, demonstrating a number of world firsts.
I gave an invited talk on reducing the barrier to chiplets at the DoE organized workshop, Chiplets for HPC and Advanced Sensors
Continued U.S. leadership in emerging technology requires a sustainable supply of advanced chips to power innovation from artificial intelligence to quantum computing. The CHIPS and Science Act, passed last year, aims to boost domestic research and manufacturing capacity for critical microelectronics.
Even with such subsidies, assembling all the elements required to reduce U.S. dependence on Asian companies “is a huge challenge,” said Andreas Olofsson, who ran a Defense Department research effort in the field before founding a packaging start-up called Zero ASIC. “You don’t have suppliers. You don’t have a work force. You don’t have equipment. You have to sort of start from scratch.”
Presenting the open source SiliconCompiler project at Latchup 2023?
Some of you may have been wondering why things have been quiet at ZeroASIC? The answer is that we have been busy working! I am very excited to tell you that we have now taped out 3 different homegrown chiplet designs in an advanced FinFET node
The biggest barrier to the democratization of chiplets is the availability and adoption of a common standard. We need a "USB/PCIE/I2C/ethernet/..." for chiplets! At Zero ASIC we are committed to promoting open standards. Today I am happy to tell you that we have joined the UCIe industry group to help reduce the barrier to chiplet design and manufacturing!
At the 59th DAC, I had the pleasure of moderating a really interesting panel on the open source EDA.
Zero ASIC paper on silicon compilation included in DAC proceedings. DAC is the permier conference on EDA and chip design methodology.
Zero ASIC launches free open source cloud based chip compiler.
Microsoft and Qualcomm Technologies will lead the second phase of a Pentagon chip initiative designed to leverage U.S. microelectronics capabilities while securing its technology supply chain. Microsoft will head a team that includes Ansys, Applied Materials, BAE Systems, Battelle Memorial Institute, Cadence Design Systems, Cliosoft, Flex Logix, GlobalFoundries, Intel Federal, Raytheon Intelligence and Space, Siemens EDA, Synopsys, Tortuga Logic, and Zero ASIC.
My keynote titled "How to Fail at Codesign" at the ASCR Workshop on Reimagining Codeseign.
...Andreas Olofsson, founder of Zero ASIC, hoped to tease out some predictions: “How many chiplets will be incorporated into a single design by 2025?