OpenSauce is an atypical event, a sort of school science fair for the (mostly) adult participants. We had visitors in our Verilog Meetup booth from MIT, NASA JPL, NVidia, Qualcomm, Samsung Corporate in Korea, Honeywell, UC Davis, UC San Diego and numerous other places.
A presentation we showed together with the live demos
Other places demoed robots, rockets, drones, ancient computers, silicon foundry in your garage, anime games, things for the school teachers and fun nerdy stuff of all kinds.
We worked together with Dan Barrowman , Ramprakash Baskar , David Grugett , Jorge Zavala and Jim Burnham on this project
Now we are looking forward to Maker Faire. Here is our announcement:
Learn Chip Design by Making Games on FPGA!
Ever wondered how a chip designer does their job? In the Verilog Meetup booth at Maker Faire, you can learn the basics of SystemVerilog hardware description language in a fun way by creating circuits that implement graphical games. We can show you how to use FPGA boards to prototype your designs with reconfigurable logic. We are also compatible with TinyTapeout infrastructure, which allows you to manufacture your design in an ASIC chip.
“Verilog, ASIC, FPGA” are not exactly household words, but they are at the very heart of the microelectronics revolution that brought us smartphones, fast internet, 3D graphics and AI acceleration. For the last 40 years, the Verilog hardware description language has been used to design the logic of chips. An ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) is the chip itself, and an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a chip used to prototype an ASIC.
Verilog Meetup is a community that meets every Sunday at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, and over Zoom – with participants on all continents. We create Verilog examples used by more than 25 universities worldwide. We run seminars, help to prepare for job interviews, and explore new chip design methodologies.
