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title: "Tim Ansell"
nickname: "mithro"
image: "timansell.jpg"
member: google
date: 2021-07-17
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Tim "mithro" Ansell is a software engineer at Google and has been developing open source software for 20+ years.
Tim has recently started trying to shake things up in the hardware accelerator development ecosystem by
removing roadblocks to having a completely open ecosystem.
Recently he worked with SkyWater Foundry to release a fully open source,
manufacturable PDK for their 130nm process node and is funding a free shuttle program for open source designs.
He has also contributed to projects in the open EDA ecosystem like OpenROAD, OpenRAM, Magic and many others.
