Hi, I’m Matt Venn!
Matthew Venn is a science & technology communicator and electronic engineer. He brings 20 years of engineering experience to create excellent and innovative learning experiences for people all over the world.
I have helped people like you to tape out on all 6 Google/Efabless shuttles. I can teach you how to design chips and how to get them made!
For a very long time I’ve been fascinated by ASICs and have been close to them in my professional life as well, but not really as much into the detail as I would want. It’s been a fascination since grad school at least, so I've been interested in seeing more open source alternatives crop up, and now with the skywater PDK and OpenLane it seemed like the right time. It’s still a bit hard to get the motivation to get started, it feels like a bit of a hurdle so when I saw this course I just jumped right on it. It felt like a perfect way to get started.
Connect with me
- Linked.in
- Join the mailing list
- I also do mentoring and coaching - see my codementor.io profile.
How I got involved with open source silicon
If you want to learn more about how I got into this exciting world, see these links:
- Article about my own Zero to ASIC journey
- My science communication website
- An interview with SemiWiki
If you want to know more about my backstory, I was interviewed by Attie for his ‘show and tell’ series on youtube.