Livestream with Thomas Parry: analogue design with the open source ASIC tools

00:00 Intro 00:45 Zero to ASIC news: MPW2 01:20 Maximo did some rendering of the application 01:50 New vid on EMFI detector coming soon 02:20 Why analogue? 02:40 Previous interviews with Diego, Lakshmi & Thomas 03:10 Welcome to Thomas 04:55 Goal of Thomas’ submission is a single chip solution for Satellite tx/rx 06:05 Goals for MPW2 07:45 Difference between MPW1 and MPW2 submission harnesses, more options for analogue 09:10 Caravan vs Caravel 10:20 Taking a look at his submission for MPW2: schematic 14:05 GDS showing DAC, LC oscillator & upconversion mixer 18:45 Demo of a simpler design using his flow 20:08 Makefile to setup environment 20:40 xschem schematic editor - opamp demo 25:00 symbol creation 25:54 testing 28:00 setting up AC simulation 30:00 running the simulation with ngspice 31:00 ngspice load times related to size of PDK 31:42 gaw to view waveforms 32:50 customisation of xschem, use Python to create Bode plots 34:18 running a transient response simulation 37:40 Python libraries: