C2S2 Blog

Spring 2026

Floating Point Integration in BLIMP

Intelligence on a Chip: IMU Motion Classification

Ambila Sivabalan

Fall 2024

The SAR ADC: Refining Digital Output Bit by Bit

Anika Sukthankar

Sound Classification Using an IIR Filter

Digital Design Subteam Advances

Building from the Ground Up: The Platforms Subteam's Evolution

Unboxing C2S2's 2024 Spring Tape Outs!

Spring 2024

Sync & Innovate: Technical PM Applied

Taylor Do and Jason Wang

Synthesizing and Verifying a Better FFT

Edmund Lam and Barry Lyu

From Idea to Chip: ASIC Design Flow

Kevin Rodriguez and Vicky Le

Room at the Bottom: Imaging Silicon

Daniel Kaminski and Caden Xu

Doing Magic in Magic VLSI

C-Making a Build System

Jack Frank and Aidan McNay

Over-the-Cloud Communication using the Particle Argon

Akshati Vaishnav and Kene Chukwuma-Orakwe

Chip Chatter

Abigail Varghese and Adele Thompson

How to Know a Scrub Jay is a Scrub Jay

Bridging Two Worlds: Analog-to-Digital Converters

David Bertuch and Jon Ho

GDS Chip Art

Emily Lan and Demetrios Gavalas

KiCad vs. Altium: Choosing Your Fighter!

Chimdi Anude and Sherri Qazi

Making Chips is NOT Easy

Angela Cui and Tomas Choi

Fall 2023

PCB Design: "There's Layers To It"

Chimdi Anude and Sherri Qazi

Designing and Synthesizing a Better FFT

Edmund Lam and Barry Lyu

Testing and Validation of Printed Circuit Boards

Akshati Vaishnav and Kene Chukwuma

Chipping Away at Challenges: Drafting a Roadmap

Abigail Varghese and Adele Thompson

Electronic Design Automation: Creating Computers from Code

Angela Cui and Ethan Gabizon

Unraveling Bird Sounds with Spectrograms

Sana Chawla and Jay Patel

Iterative vs. Unrolled Calculations

Steven Sun and Aidan McNay

Digital Art: Principles Of Digital Circuit Design

Setor Simpri and Ena Jovanovic

Hello World! New Updates on Sponsorship Packet and Newsletter

Taylor Do and Jason Wang

Malloc from Scratch: Diving into Memory's Secret Keeper

Akanksha Sarkar

From Sand To Silicon: ASICs and FPGAs Explained

Tomas Choi and Johnny Martinez

A Blink Into Silicon's Potential

Ananya Goenka and Elias Castro

Representing Numbers In Hardware

Mattie Lee and Vicky Le

The Analog Subteam Process Flow

Thomas Figura and David Bertuch

Spring 2023

System Architecture Blog Post

Matt Hales and Akshati Vaishnav

Deserializer and Tape-Out Update

Two Sides Of A Coin: How Modules on a Chip Communicate

Tomas Choi and Kevin Liu

Magic VLSI vs. Cadence Virtuoso

Thomas Figura and Aidan McNay

Progress Report - 4/23/2023

Christopher Schiff and Johnny Martinez

Software and Relative Position Estimator

Akanksha Sarkar and Sana Chawla

SPI Minion, Adapter, & Python Tools

Alga Peng and Xiangyi Zhao

Silicon For Scrubs Jays

Chidera Wokonko and Abigail Varghese

Analog Multiplexer

Adele Thompson and David Bertuch

I SPI

Austin Brown and Mika Finkman

Crash Detectors & Calculators

Ananya Goenka and Michael Wei

System Architecture Progress Report

Chimdi Anude and Kene Chukwuma-Orakwe

Progress Report - March 2023

Dylan Tom and Edmund Lam

The Process of Acquiring Sponsors

Jasmine Samadi and Jay Patel

Progress Report

Will Salcedo and Steven Sun

Constant-g_m Current Reference Tape-In

Jon Ho and Emmi Wyttenbach