27 Mar
2006
27 Mar
'06
8:55 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Jim Leonard wrote:
David Griffith wrote:
Theoretically, the SID handbook published by Commodore should be enough to
recreate the SID. Since NMOS isn't used very much anymore, that may be a
roadblock to making exact copies. There are some xrays of the SID on the
web, which would be a big help.
I'm not very keen on FPGA. Can someone tell me if one can take FPGA
design specs and make a run of masked chips?
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Here's a guy who's doing a very good job
at replicating the SID on FPGA.
I am a complete noob on this subject matter (something that is most
likely going to get me booed off the stage in about five seconds) but
wouldn't there be a way to just, I don't know, slice open the chip
somehow and trace things to reproduce the chip exactly? (Ignore
patent/copyright issues for now, I'm just curious in the technical
feasibility of the process.) Is something like that possible?