Discontinued IC's

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon Jul 31 11:03:58 2000

> 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
Received on Mon Jul 31 2000 - 11:03:58 BST