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				nickname: "mithro"
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				member: google
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				date: 2021-03-13
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				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.
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				Tim has recently started trying to shake things up in the hardware accelerator development ecosystem by
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				removing roadblocks to having a completely open ecosystem.
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				Recently he worked with SkyWater Foundry to release a fully open source,
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				manufacturable PDK for their 130nm process node and is funding a free shuttle program for open source designs.
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				He has also contributed to projects in the open EDA ecosystem like OpenROAD, OpenRAM, Magic and many others.
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