Re: The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)
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MOSIS has been around for several decades, with access from both educational and private industry. Most EE VLSI classes in major universities have used this service for student and research projects. I first discovered it in the early 1980's while taking a VLSI class. It's always been relatively cheap, at a few hundred dollars per chip with mixed project wafers, and slightly cheaper with larger "short runs". Checkout the "Magic" VLSI design tools from Berkeley, as they should still be directrly targeted at MOSIS processes. Other university supported tools exist as well. It's not a "sensitive spot" ... just a "short" reply to send you off and do your homework first :) John Apparantly this mail list isn't dead after all, you just have to hit a sensitive spot :) I was pleased to see the link to MOSIS, I never knew there is such a project. (Can I call it a project?) It's a great way of putting a lower amount of chips in the market for a cheaper (startup) price (not sure about the final product). I'm an electrotechnic student and am currently reading about cmos vlsi design. For example: not until last week I knew SPICE was involved after you created your VHDL design. It's great to get my hands dirty on new stuff, specially when we're not talking about needed millions for startup (ie: making it realistic). And hey, it's vacation anyway. So yeah, maybe if I ever understand the whole process I'll design a rc5 pipe, an interface that can control the (multiple) pipe(s), and make it wishbone compliant (pci interface for example). Suddenly, it all looks so simple. Now if someone had the guts to jump into this market and start a new hype in distributed computing... if there's a market, there's one way to find out. And that's by starting with 'a couple of' chips, not 12.5k of 'em :) My final $.02 on the subject, for now. Cheers, - wacco. _________________________________________________________________ Speel games met je online vrienden via MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ _______________________________________________ Hardware mailing list Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware _______________________________________________ Hardware mailing list Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware