#721 – Chip Design for Fun (and Waffles) with Julia Desmazes
From The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast by Dave Jones & Chris Gammell
April 9, 2026 · 60 min
About this episode
Julia Desmazes discusses chip design and the challenges of meeting tapeout deadlines.
Welcome Julia Desmazes of Tales on The Wire Follow along with the blog post we discuss Two Weeks Until Tapeout Matt Venn – TinyTapeout – Episode 616 and 672 Andreas Olofsson – openroad/openlane – Episode 254 and 650 Tim Ansell – Wafer.space – Episode 375 , 501 , and 703 JTAG How do you know that tooling is or isn’t working? Accelerator Rabbithole with floating point ( post updated after recording ) BFloat16 Follow Julia on GitHub https://github.com/Essenceia Kapla (official website , not the much cheaper alibaba version): Dimity Grinberg personal blog
People in this episode
Host: Chris Gammell
Guest: Julia Desmazes
Topics covered
- chip design
- electronics
- tapeout
- silicon
- tooling
- accelerators
Keywords
- chip design
- tapeout
- silicon
- electronics
- tooling
- accelerators
- visibility
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