Digital Circuit Design Series - Introduction
The story goes like this: Recently, after many years, I delved back into digital circuit design and tapeout, a field I had been distant from for quite a while. On November 13th, with the pressure on, I submitted my first ever digital circuit chip. I'm writing this preface to document future related posts.
The last time I dabbled in digital circuit design was during my university days, even before I started this blog, which shows how long ago it was. I wanted to write this article because I found very few related records and articles online during this tapeout process. The articles I did find were either in Simplified Chinese or English. The only detailed Traditional Chinese one I found was HaoYu's Notes . Besides that, I had to rely on my college classmates for help. Sending out this tapeout on 11/13 was largely thanks to their tremendous support, including long-term partner JJL and phoning, whose support I've relied heavily upon from university through graduate school to now.
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