I made a custom ASIC: World's first of its kind

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This amazing project show how simple it can be to make a custom chip.
Ok, it might not be the best example but it's a world first.
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0:00 Intro
2:20 Tiny Tapeout
3:00 Caravel full of treasures
4:24 My contribution
6:35 Project PCB
7:53 PCB Manufacturing
9:00 PCB assembly
11:41 3rd attempt
13:18 Hardware test
13:50 Firmware
15:21 Results
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@Fluburtur 4 ай бұрын

I worked at a fab (photolithography specifically, shining angry lights into rocks to make them smart) and knowing what it takes to make chips it blows my mind that this tech is accessible to individuals, thats cool

@mllarson 4 ай бұрын

"Shining angry lights into rocks to make them smart" needs to be on a t-shirt 🤣

@scottgal1 4 ай бұрын

@@mllarson We then trap lightning in the rocks to make them think.

@jamescollier3 4 ай бұрын

I worked for AMAT. Someone said, "8000 people looking for a new job."

@randomsomeguy156 4 ай бұрын

If anyone happens to see this and can chime in. How does one who is interested in chip design and manufacturing get into the industry? I would be most interested in designing chip architecture (but anything higher or lower than that would be awesome as well), but working in a fab would be insane as well

@rodrigodemais 4 ай бұрын

I am a chip designer and I would say just go pursue EE or CE majors in university and the path will be there. Today chip companies are hiring like crazy and in a couple of years this hiring will continue to grow.@@randomsomeguy156

@MrMaxeemum 4 ай бұрын

I worked in the PCB industry 30 years ago and was amazed when it became accessible to the general public, and now it the same with ASICs. MIND BLOWN!!!

@notaras1985 3 ай бұрын

What changed?

@user-tc2ky6fg2o 4 ай бұрын

When you immediately recognize a 'movement' on 32x32 pixels @ 3 FPS and 4 colors, in 6-8 frames total length, then that movement is really etched into mankind's brain.

@BirkinIdk 4 ай бұрын

Lmao! The moment I saw it I went "fuck you!"🤣 it's crazy that we can immediately recognize what it is haha

@reyariass 4 ай бұрын

@@BirkinIdkit truly is!

@G7Animated 4 ай бұрын

That’s crazy but how

@emilcrafter 4 ай бұрын

I an instantly going to guess that it’s either a rickroll or bad apple

@stevebabiak6997 4 ай бұрын

I had suspected it was a Rick roll as soon as he said all of the pieces had a description except for that very one. Because people like to have a Rick roll pop up in unexpected places, in unexpected ways …

@DigBipper188 4 ай бұрын

The fact that photolithography is now accessible enough that a youtuber was capable of making their own chips... blows my mind!

@conorstewart2214 4 ай бұрын

It’s not really a youtuber being capable of making their own chips, rather it is an open source project being able to produce a chip with lots of peoples designs on it, still at a rather significant cost with no real purpose other than education. The fab has probably cut them a really good deal. It’s not like you imply where a youtuber can just get any custom chip made, it is still not accessible except in this specific open source project.

@Mr.Leeroy 4 ай бұрын

I think you underestimate yotubers power. Such times, much progression, right..

@corwin.macleod 4 ай бұрын

Most KZfaqrs that do tech and science related stuff are pretty gifted individuals, a lot of them work in the industry, a lot of them are self-taught professionals or both.

@Clancydaenlightened 4 ай бұрын

You can do it in your garage using older fab like nmos and pmos with micron feature sizes Like photo etching a pcb

@Sixta16 4 ай бұрын

It would be much more mindblowing to do something else, useful, than a tiny ROM chip.

@andreas9756 4 ай бұрын

Gotta love that the QC sticker reads "Accetpable" at 6:35!

@matthewvenn 4 ай бұрын

Good spot! It's one of our standard mispelt qc stickers!

@4.0.4 4 ай бұрын

Someone needs to add QC to the QC stickers.

@qwertyboguss 4 ай бұрын

QCeption

@sharkysharkerson 4 ай бұрын

There's no better purpose in life than putting so much effort into something so frivolous.

@o0julek0o 4 ай бұрын

What’s life without whimsy?

@elmariachi5133 4 ай бұрын

Doing any actually useful thing just starts in value and satisfaction where frivolous things top out. But obviously this is not a frivolous thing, as it's just a proof of concept and testing of the overall project whil will have plenty of use.

@jino139 4 ай бұрын

Actually is massive Karma

@the.bog. 4 ай бұрын

That’s such a smart idea! Doing a group buy for silicon is insanely clever! 🤯

@conorstewart2214 4 ай бұрын

The only problem is the small size of the design and that everyone gets access to your design.

@graealex 4 ай бұрын

@@conorstewart2214 Which is usually okay as a tool for education. It's a bit like these tiny satellite programs - CubeSats. Not much you can do in a 10x10x10cm satellite. But at least it gets sent to space. Last year they launched 400 satellites, and due to advances in designing micro-satellites, there are now more commercial and amateur projects on board.

@theevilnoob96 4 ай бұрын

No it's just a niche at this point

@AnonymousAnarchist2 4 ай бұрын

@@conorstewart2214Computers got thier start because everyone was sharing thier designs. All the universities, and radio hobbists shared every detail. Thats how we get the idea of file formats and standards that allow the internet itself to work at all. Without that open share model computers would all have thier own file formats, some would use binary other trinary some might even use digitized analog adders but none would be compatable with each other.

@ZeroToASICcourse 4 ай бұрын

@@conorstewart2214 that's not a problem, it's a feature

@JohnVance 4 ай бұрын

Rideshare for ASIC, this is fascinating and hilarious and wholesome all at the same time, thanks so much for broadening our horizons.

@radarmusen 4 ай бұрын

Rick can be proud to the first publication on the new ASIC media.

@johnbrooks7350 4 ай бұрын

I’m currently taking an ASIC class in grad school and I honestly will prolly still take this course. It’s amazing how education at university never seems to match up to classes taught by people with such passion

@matthewvenn 4 ай бұрын

We hope tiny tapeout gets used by lots of universities!

@hstrinzel 4 ай бұрын

No way ... WAY! FABulous! What a smart and fun project! Brilliant and very inspiring! THANK YOU for keeping to create such fun stuff! Keep right on creating!

@spazoq 4 ай бұрын

Always check for shorts with an ohm meter before powering on a board. I'm sure you've hear that a million times by now.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

A fuse would even protect if you drop a metal wire .

@rya3190 4 ай бұрын

@@ArneChristianRosenfeldtWouldn't the 0ohm resisters act, if a bit flawed, like a fuse? Granted, the tolerance for it would have to be lower than what you're powering with it...

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

@@rya3190 I was more thinking if on boot up you could set the power limits for each tile ( most of the to zero ). Why else would they care if a single tile can pull down the whole chip? Isn’t there really a power management?

@4jochen 4 ай бұрын

This is a great project from many points of view. Just Great. !!! I'm Senior electronic Design engineer myself - and love your inspiring projects , openness with misshapes and the story telling. Just, Thanks.

@arduinoguru7233 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your chary spirit, you give me motivation every time I watch your videos

@SirRandallDoesStuff 4 ай бұрын

Man, I would love to be able to make SNES and NES ASIC chips for a custom clone console.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

Count the pins! I wonder how the surge protection works. Maybe we want to do intense compute and need a lot of current in one tile, while the other is just sram?

@Ironclad17 4 ай бұрын

A similar project for a handful of consoles and retro pcs we have working on fpgas would be a novel idea.

@iamjimgroth 4 ай бұрын

Can't you simulate those old things on a 328?

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

@@Ironclad17 you mean to re-use the design as written in VDHL ? Mister Cores get updates all the time. So better stick with pre 1990

@PaulBunkey 4 ай бұрын

This is how advertising should be done. In the context. With interested audience. By example.

@4.0.4 4 ай бұрын

Hmmm sounds like an idea, but how about another decade of focusing on gender, race politics, etc? In every ad? No?

@nobodynoone2500 4 ай бұрын

What a huge accomplishment! Well done!

@thamikemannote 4 ай бұрын

the selection idea is genious!!!

@raymitchell9736 4 ай бұрын

This is a COOL idea! And open source... WOW!

@paulushdk 4 ай бұрын

such an awesome project!

@kroojohn 4 ай бұрын

a very interesting project :) also a lot of funny moments :) Those revisions are the bane of every PCB designer :) Keep dong this, you are great !!!!

@hidde1626 4 ай бұрын

Amazing that this is so accessible.

@mzimmerman1988 4 ай бұрын

Nice video! This makes me want to learn more about ASIC

@kennethbeal 4 ай бұрын

Nicely done!

@AndersNielsenAA 4 ай бұрын

You could've... But you... TinyTapeout really is amazing. Love it!

@DynamicSun 4 ай бұрын

wow, Großartig, Glückwunsch, da geht mir's Herz auf als Techniker, bin begeistert

@bradmesserle999 2 ай бұрын

It’s not a waste of resources.. you are building up your skills and knowledge. Fantastic job.. so exciting..

@matthewvenn 4 ай бұрын

loved the video! Thanks Luni!

@jelletje8 3 ай бұрын

This is such a cool concept.

@djmips 4 ай бұрын

Fun idea and very informative! whimsy for the win.

@giantbee9763 3 ай бұрын

Wow, fun and cool project bitluni!

@biggertigger 4 ай бұрын

Perfect sample choice.

@Asn.1ce 4 ай бұрын

Awesome video as always

@enilenis 4 ай бұрын

Ability to order custom made chips, like PCBway makes printed boards, would be amazing. Though one would have to exhaust FPGA's first. For something like this, I would've gone with a programmable gate array. There'd be place in there for the graphics, there'd be dedicated rom. Ability to maybe even mimic a decoder. VGA signal is easy to generate... but yeah... that's not the point here. The point is that it's cool to be able to make ASIC's. A PCB can me manufactured at home, given the right tools. A microchip production plant? Not in the wildest dreams.

@satibel 4 ай бұрын

I mean you can have a microchip plant as long as you're willing to compromise on the size. A few hundred junctions are easy enough to make with a couple hundred grand of hardware, it's basically pcb but small and with deposition. Making something like a ring buffer for addressable leds should be doable at home.

@4.0.4 4 ай бұрын

Fun fact: the human brain is able to recognize certain things instantly, such as faces, your own name, and the rickroll meme.

@maxmyzer9172 4 ай бұрын

I wish i knew about this, this is so cool!!

@z80softcard 4 ай бұрын

great job !

@alan- 4 ай бұрын

gratz and props!

@johnjakson444 4 ай бұрын

MOSIS has been doing this since the 1980s which favored US student engineers taking VLSI design courses, I think Europe had a similar project too.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

But isn’t it great that now you don’t have to sign an NDA?

@matthewvenn 4 ай бұрын

@@ArneChristianRosenfeldtand you can use free and accessible open source tools!

@pentachronic 3 ай бұрын

@@ArneChristianRosenfeldt You have to open source your project though. Not particularly good for development of new technology.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 3 ай бұрын

@@pentachronic the fab process is open source and all projects so far seem to be typical homework assignments. I don’t even know what the cutting edge is right now, but it seems to deal with scaling to many transistors. Far more than you can buy here.

@alexriesenbeck 4 ай бұрын

Great work! That Timelapse music sounds straight out of Sim City

@fooglestuff 4 ай бұрын

Nice one, bitluni! Great to see, and thanks for sharing this level of detail :) I hope you do more Tiny Tapeout submissions in future! Maybe time to try an analog layout...? :)

@gregorymccoy6797 4 ай бұрын

Never had leading edge tech been put to a better use. Well done, Sir.

@MegaTraxxas 4 ай бұрын

Well, that's not really the leading edge technology 😂

@Gameplayer55055 4 ай бұрын

Just imagine if you uploaded the chip design only to discover that you forgot to place one junction

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt 4 ай бұрын

Imagine that simulation went a long way and this for top students who don’t make mistakes anyway.

@matthewvenn 4 ай бұрын

that's why we encourage everyone to verify!

@Anvilshock 4 ай бұрын

For a very, very, very, very specific definition of "first" and "kind".

@drdca8263 4 ай бұрын

While the definition of “kind” may need to be somewhat specific, I don’t think “first” needs an unusual definition?

@msmith2961 4 ай бұрын

That was also probably the world's nerdiest rick roll! Loved it!

@3nertia 3 ай бұрын

One step closer to open source hardware and I LOVE YOU FOR IT! One step closer to open source touchscreens, e-ink displays, and maybe eventually even cpus/gpus! 😃

@b00lean 4 ай бұрын

You, Sir, are a genious!

@marcfruchtman9473 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the interesting video.

@greedtheron8362 3 ай бұрын

It's so crazy that we can get custom silicon these days(granted, with a 9 month lead time). Wouldn't be surprised if this gets better and better and in twenty years, we'll have places like PCBway giving you custom chips to go with your custom boards.

@pluggedfinn-bj3hn 3 ай бұрын

I was like "if it isn't a rickroll I'll write a mad comment" the moment he mentioned it being something graphical I was not disappointed :D

@gljames24 4 ай бұрын

I really wanted to do tiny tapeout after hearing about it a bit ago, but I've been a bit too busy. Hopefully it'll still be going when I can get to writing something in verilog.

@GRBtutorials 4 ай бұрын

Look at the “Tiny Tapeout Chips” section in the sidebar. They’ve got chips planned every few months at least until the end of 2024.

@Embassy_of_Jupiter 3 ай бұрын

Ayyyyyy sick, bro

@tomacaster 4 ай бұрын

10:10 the most billiant idea I've seen since I woke up today.

@saultube44 2 ай бұрын

Dang it, I never expected to be Rickr-olled in a video about a custom ASIC

@CraigBurden1 4 ай бұрын

Is that an ESD safe fingerprint on the chip when you are assembling it? 😆

@hudsonreynolds4349 4 ай бұрын

Love it

@andrewdewar8159 4 ай бұрын

Awesome !

@TradieTrev 4 ай бұрын

I'm really impressed we can do this in our modern age, I thought they only let the biggest and brightest minds to have a crack!

@AlokSharma1 4 ай бұрын

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@fuzziau5669 4 ай бұрын

hoping someday we can manufacture ASIC's from home. would be incredible to have even the more basic of minimum-required tooling to make something without relying on a few major companies that are politically involved. even if not at home - like some others have said - PCBWay is a great example of advances in electronics/embedded engineering for the masses at low expense!

@TheKakan1337 4 ай бұрын

A wild communist furry?

@berenedain8427 3 ай бұрын

You pass butter! Oh my GOD!

@Tehom1 4 ай бұрын

Clearly you are never going to give that ASIC up.

@imantssakne9486 4 ай бұрын

congrats

@enjibkk6850 4 ай бұрын

Perfect conclusion 😂

@thejavaman53 4 ай бұрын

In the history of humanity, This will be remembered as a day when we all got rick-rolled by the first custom home-made ASIC.

@NicksStuff 4 ай бұрын

This is sooooo nerdy! But I love it!!! How much was one chip? And the whole project?

@grandmasterautistwizard4291 3 ай бұрын

DIY photolithography and custom chips are a fucking insane concept.

@royalt9863 3 ай бұрын

You used my text message ringtone! Mario 1-up

@graealex 4 ай бұрын

Maybe through technical advances, economies of scale and multi-project wafer services, one day silicon production can get similar turn-around like what happened in the PCB industry.

@ZPdrumer 4 ай бұрын

It would take a lot of changes. Making stencils for all the layers is really expensive. You can’t “print” them out like with PCB where tracks are very wide (certainly compared to features in a chip). The tools used to dope silicon and deposit SiO2 are also not cheap. It would definitely be cool to get to that point. But it’s pretty far away for now

@kennethhicks2113 4 ай бұрын

When I'm lazy with a VR, i use a few diodes and resistor (series)... you know this tho.... Great project : )

@korishan 4 ай бұрын

Just came across a video on Twitter of "Touchable Flames". The "flames" are made from water vapor and red led lights. It looks like flames, even while putting your hands through the misting.

@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh 4 ай бұрын

This is really really really cool, I am just sad you cant order quantities. $300 for a custom (really small) chip is awesome, just wish I could order 1000 more for $1 each.

@yetzt 4 ай бұрын

oh, wow.

@ChristianStout 3 ай бұрын

Where'd you get the solder paste stencil? Does Aisler provide those with their orders?

@KWifler 4 ай бұрын

I heard that multiplying numbers is hard for processors. So what if someone made a multiplication table chip? Would that speed up computers?

@fmbroadcast 4 ай бұрын

Nevers gona give you UP 😍👍👍👍😍😍😍

@nziom 4 ай бұрын

Nice

@robertweekes5783 4 ай бұрын

Send this on the next Voyager probe. 😂

@ressamendy 4 ай бұрын

I'm more interested in SIP and modules. You have dived much deeper. Actually, it would be enough if I gathered the ready-made products under one roof. (Especially in SIP form and Esp32 s3 and sx1262 chips)

@shinekamil 4 ай бұрын

What model is your SMD reflow heater? Would you recommend it for purchase?

@Gabirell 4 ай бұрын

ASIC Travolta 😂 👏👏👏👏

@notsonominal 4 ай бұрын

ROFL. Well played!

@DeliciousDeBlair 4 ай бұрын

Did you use some kind of special fluid to safely remove soldered parts? If so, I have never heard of such a product and would be VERY interested to know what it is!

@ProtonOne11 4 ай бұрын

He just uses flux paste that helps the solder to flow better. Then you have to heat the solder to melting temperature again to remove the chip. I guess you could try to find some very specific acid that only attacks the tin in the solder, but i don't think this exists and it would just eat away all the metals, including the legs of the chip or other components.

@jacobdavidcunningham1440 4 ай бұрын

crazy what is trivial knowledge to one person vs. the other

@TecSanento 4 ай бұрын

So even as a group buy - what did one of those chips cost you :)? (and how much cheaper would it have been if you ordered more?)

@rrrrrr9308 4 ай бұрын

Fine solution to the microchip crisis! Easy to do some really simple and primitive CPUs!

@alPham0d3x 4 ай бұрын

I understood nothing but it was very nice to watch lol

@CMOSTheBattery 4 ай бұрын

now we need to make an asic that only runs doom

@andrewferguson6901 4 ай бұрын

Oh you can compile c on toaster? I rewrote doom in silicon

@andrewferguson6901 4 ай бұрын

Wait hasn't someone already done this with Redstone? Free template

@gn0st1c 4 ай бұрын

i was happy to be rickrolled :)

@St0RM33 4 ай бұрын

hehe i made this kind of pinout mistake too on my board;p botched a fix before the re-design;p

@randyhelzerman 4 ай бұрын

Congrats, no small achievement

@highwaltage 4 ай бұрын

drone flight controller?

@hanfo420 3 ай бұрын

In the world of CD-RWs, he made a CD-ROM.

@teslatrooper 4 ай бұрын

Nice I was just about to get a small design made at Aisler, thanks for the five bucks. Tinytapeout is such a cool initiative too, if I ever have an idea for an ASIC now I can actually consider getting it made, if I can remember any of the VHDL from uni >.>

@aislerhq 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for using our service :)

@megan_alnico 4 ай бұрын

Could one take a Mister FPGA core and build an ASIC form it? Can it do analog circuits? Would a C64 SID replacement be possible?

@djtomoy 2 ай бұрын

2007 called, it wants its meme back

@awefjlx 4 ай бұрын

Anyone knows how many ASICs you get for participating?

@tossancuyota7848 4 ай бұрын

dime how did u get ur hand on a lithography machine that actually work

@mylittleparody2277 4 ай бұрын

The best choice of use for a custom ASIC XD I mean, you could have made a VGA controler, or anything, and no, it's a Rick roll (without sound), glorious!