2024-08-04, 11:55–12:25 (Asia/Taipei), TR611
The presenters are members of the "CPU-dev" group, a technical community dedicated to hobby CPU design. They recently participated in MPW-3, successfully completing the tape-out of their own 8-bit ISA CPU design. While they had prior experience designing soft CPUs using FPGAs, this marked their inaugural attempt at silicon tape-out. Today, they will share their journey of developing the CPU using open-source EDA tools.
Yuki Azuma is a first-year master’s student at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in physics. His hobby lies in creating things such as CPUs and operating systems to understand their mechanisms. During his fourth year at a technical college, together with his friend Kazuhide, he embarked on designing an 8-bit ISA CPU. Using open-source tools, they ultimately succeeded in fabricating a genuine LSI.
Kazuhide Uchiyama is a first-year master's student at the National Institute of Informatics, specializing in computer architecture. Since his undergraduate years, he has been familiar with FPGA and computer architecture, and in his third year of university, he successfully taped out a CPU using only open-source software. He writes articles in both Japanese and English on his personal website, vlsi.jp. Twitter:@Cra2yPierr0t