26 Apr
2013
26 Apr
'13
12:01 p.m.
Two others
have idiosyncratic bases: VAX for the emotional
attachments I have to it and Super-H because the one I have has
interesting harware integrated with it which I want to play with.
Is the Super-H
machine you're talking about a Dreamcast? [I]t's the "fitting" process (taking the
intermediate netlist,
placing all the nodes, then choosing routes that will meet the timing
constraints) that takes so long.
I suspect
there are much cheaper algorithms [...]
Maybe. CAD algorithm design is a huge and
active area of academic
research, because there's a lot of money to be made if you can
develop an algorithm that closes faster and gives higher maximum
frequencies. There's always an opportunity to reverse-engineer
from subtly
different builds, but I do think the EULAs probably prohibit that...
if you did it for your own edification, though, no one would know.
Sure, but that doesn't make it any less wrong.
Like a lot of licensing, it most hampers the people who are least
problematic. But I'm preaching to the choir, methinks....
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