At 08:39 PM 7/30/00 -0700, Chris Kennedy wrote:
and you can't build a processor (or
something
that looks like a processor) these days without using custom cells,
i.e., non-synthesized hunks of code which describe the circuit
at the transistor level.
www.fpgacpu.org
There are also, as of many years ago (which was the last time I checked),
Z80, 6502, 8086, and 80186 cores available for inclusion in gate array
design. The problem was that they were, and probably still are, very very
expensive.
Eric