Spice simulation of ASIC gates in Jupyter Notebook

cbrake · November 17, 2020, 2:55pm

Very neat exercise:

xesscorp/skidl/blob/development/examples/skywater/skywater.ipynb

{
 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 1,
   "metadata": {
    "ExecuteTime": {
     "end_time": "2020-11-16T18:02:19.564089Z",
     "start_time": "2020-11-16T18:02:19.541718Z"
    }
   },
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "text/html": [
       "<style>\n",
       "@import url('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Code+Pro');\n",
       "@import url('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lora');\n",
       "\n",
       "//@import url('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans');\n",

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(Note, make sure to view the above link in Github, as Github can render Jupyter Notebooks)

This illustrates a number of important points:

OSS hardware tools are taking off
You can do amazing things in Jupyter Notebook
Open source chip design is coming
Open standards (ex Spice models) mean you can use data with a number of different tools
Graphical schematics may soon be a thing of the past – especially for complex designs
Python seems to have found its niche as a tools language (popular in machine learning, data analysis, and now hardware design)