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• [ 2026 - 7 - 16 ] two years at cornell custom silicon systems wrapped
• [ 2026 - 7 - 16 ] how to teach workshops
• [ 2024 ] birds on railways

recommendations on getting started with silicon

• practical electronics for inventors by paul scherz
• fundamentals of microelectronics by behzad razavi
• cmos vlsi design: a circuits and systems perspective (4th edition) by neil h. e. weste and david money harris. i met david harris once at harvey mudd, but we ended up talking purely about aerodynamics. this was before i’d gotten into chips, and i still regret not knowing at the time that he’d written this absolute gem :,(
• analog ic design course on sky130 teaches core analog ic concepts while you build actual hands-on circuits on the sky130 pdk