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Screenshot of a1k0n.net: Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates (a1k0n.net)

402 points by a1k0n 10 months ago | 65 comments

Blog post describing demoscene-style entries for the Tiny Tapeout 8 demo competition: ~4000-gate ASIC designs outputting VGA video and audio without CPU or memory.

tiny-tapeout asic demoscene vga

Screenshot of a1k0n.net: From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon

From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon (a1k0n.net)

138 points by a1k0n 1 year ago | 20 comments

Screenshot of a1k0n.net: Donut math: how donut.c works

Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)

153 points by mr_o47 3 years ago | 12 comments

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Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates(a1k0n.net)

From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon(a1k0n.net)

Donut math: how donut.c works(a1k0n.net)

Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates (a1k0n.net)

From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon (a1k0n.net)

Donut math: how donut.c works (a1k0n.net)