9 Mar
2003
9 Mar
'03
4:41 a.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
The ultimate trophy: Design an IC, make it work on
first silicon. Take one
of the first wafers and get it sealed or laminated (or whatever). Frame it
on the wall, with a metal plate underneath: "This die contains [n]
[suchandsuch] devices. The original production run worked flawlessly on
first silicon. Design team: [whoever]".
My sole aim in life is to take part in the design of a microprocessor, have
it run on first silicon and have an entire silicon wafer full of the chips
on the wall at home :-)
If only VLSI design was as easy as designing a computer :-)
Well TTL is easy to design with. Feel free to take any of my TTL
designs (when finished) and cast it into silicon. Note once I get
my TTL computer design debuged and built ( the slow and $$$ parts )
I would like to do a VLSI design just to see how good or bad
the design is compared to other real chips.
Ben.