[Ground-station] Introducing Michelle Thompson and Tom Spyrou

[Bruce Perens]

Oops, not for the list. I should know better by now.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:40 AM Bruce Perens <bruce at perens.com> wrote:
>
> Michelle,
>
> This is to introduce you and Tom Spyrou. Tom is from Precision
> Innovation,. and is the current tech lead on the OpenROAD project.
> OpenROAD is currently the most advanced, fully open source ASIC place
> and route tooling, an essential part of creating fully open source
> ICs.
>
> Tom has been working with DARPA funding but their grant is ending and
> DARPA might wish to push them in the proprietary direction, due to
> concerns about enabling a potential enemy, which has led Tom to search
> for other funders.
>
> There are obvious synergies between their gate-array work and ORI's
> space work, and I mentioned to Tom that having some sort of
> on-insulator process would be helpful for space. There is the
> potential for Google to help fund that, they've previously gotten
> another manufacturer to Open Source design files for an older process.
>
> Precision is potentially interested in ampr.org funding and I think
> ampr.org would be delighted to be involved in this. Since you have
> been successful in getting a grant from them, and are aware of the
> oddities in the ampr.org process, I thought you'd be good to discuss
> that with Tom.
>
> I also recently talked with Mike Wishart of e-fabless, who is another
> piece of this puzzle - the foundry connection for an Open Source
> toolchain.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     Bruce
>
> --
> Bruce Perens K6BP
> - Board Partner, OSS Capital LLC Venture Capital
> - CEO, undisclosed startup



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Bruce Perens K6BP
- Board Partner, OSS Capital LLC Venture Capital
- CEO, undisclosed startup