Re: The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)
Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]> Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:13:24 +0800
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On 11 Aug, 2004, at 13:13, david fleischer wrote: > --- jbass-/[email protected] wrote: > >> Anybody know what happens to an FPGA's performance >> if you cool it down >> to 10K? >> >> John > > It gets faster... by how much? the thresholds of the > transistors go down by about 1 mV for each 3deg, if i > remember correctly. This makes them switch faster, > until all of the delay is caused not by the switching > but by the routing (in an FPGA this dominates). I think semiconductors don't work properly at really low temperatures, but that could just be me. - Purr _______________________________________________ Hardware mailing list Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware