11 Dec
2001
11 Dec
'01
11:12 p.m.
Chris Kennedy wrote:
Ben Franchuk wrote:
[snip]
This is a top of the head figure. Since I have computer budget
of $50 a month I don't check that often for the latest fab prices.
I will stick to slow FPGA's for now. That is not to say I would
not like my latest and not so great cpu in real silicon.
--
Ben Franchuk --- Pre-historic Cpu's --
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
PS. Note even doing chip design in slow technology will show
the strengths and weakness of a design. Remember too with the
massive pipelining that a real instruction could be 1/10 the
clock speed. Note I still think the 6800/6500 architecture makes
sense than massive pipelining to save a few % in clock cycles.
Prototype fab will be about $30K. ( depends on
chip size ).
Um, if you can point me to a .18 or finer fab that will even
answer the phone for $30K I'd love to hear about it.