The Basics of ASICs

An initiative to get teenagers designing and manufacturing their own ASICs and chips by Kai Pereira and Hack Club!

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How to make a write-up!

The amount of hobbyiests working on designing their own ASICs is quite small, so the least we could do to make this space more accessible is by sharing our learnings, failures and successes for everyone to build on, in the form of a project write-up!

A good technical write-up should explain the project itself in great detail and like I mentioned before, the learnings, failures and successes. Any moderately technical person looking at your write-up should be able to wrap their head around your waveforms, so if this wave goes high, why does this one go low and explain technically how everything moves and works in your project.

A write-up should also help reinforce your own knowledge about your design, that's why using AI to create your write-up is stricly forbidden. Your write-up should also be easy to understand with minimal spelling or grammatical mistake and I know that lots of people face language barriers, so the requirements are quite lenient. You should also have large images that makes your write-up look polished and refined.

Here's some examples of awesome write-ups on the Internet: