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Tim 'mithro' Ansell

I build open source silicon ecosystems — creator of the SkyWater SKY130 & GF180MCU open PDKs and Google's Open MPW shuttle program (>1,000 tapeouts, >40% by first-time designers). Now founder & CEO of wafer.space.

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Tim 'mithro' Ansell

Talks
121
Interviews
11
Papers
17
Citations
246
GitHub repos
568
Followers
978

Recent talks

YearTalkEvent
2026 wafer.space - TSRI 2026 Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI), Tainan
2026 wafer.space - COSCUP 2026 COSCUP 2026
2026 wafer.space - Hack-A-Day Europe 2026 Hackaday Europe 2026
2026 wafer.space - Silicon Sprint AUC 2026 Silicon Sprint AUC 2026
2026 wafer.space: Silicon now $4 USD, get inspired from Run #1! video Hackware hardware meetup, Singapore

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Macro photo of a GF180MCU multi-project wafer: a gold grid of dies
wafer.space Run 1 — GF180MCU multi-project wafer
Full die scan in gold and copper with a blue pad ring
Die scan — GF180MCU
Wire-bonded chips on black circuit boards
Chip on board — wafer.space Run 1
A single silicon die resting on a fingertip
One die, actual size
Numato Opsis: a black circuit board with HDMI, DisplayPort and Ethernet ports and a Spartan-6 FPGA
Numato Opsis — HDMI2USB open video capture board
Fomu: a tiny blue circuit board that fits inside a USB port
Fomu — an FPGA that fits in your USB port