I’m happy to announce I won the European Open Source Academy’s Special Recognition for Skills and Education!

I was honoured to have been presented the award by David Cuartielles, co-founder of Arduino. I hope that one day I can look back and say that the Zero to ASIC course and Tiny Tapeout made a comparable impact in the field of microelectronics.

I want to thank my family and friends for their support; Tim Edwards and Tim Ansell for getting me started; all the people who took my Zero to ASIC course; and especially Uri Shaked, who became my cofounder at Tiny Tapeout. He and the Tiny Tapeout team turned my rough prototype into a real product.

Thanks to the opensource silicon community for being so supportive. And of course none of the open source chip design tools would exist without the tremendous commitment to free and open source software that has made even incredibly niche fields like microelectronics accessible to anyone with an internet connection.