Sridhar wrote:
> I was thinking somewhere in the range of a gigahertz.
Cool. That only requires 18 month old fab technology :-)
Assuming you can figure out an implementation that will
work within the limits of the fab's process, can bum
simulator time and are a reasonably capable mix of
CPU designer and floorplan wizard it shouldn't cost
you more than low to mid six figures (US) to buy your
way into a fab that has a process that can hit that
speed range.
To have something to carry to the fab you can probably
reduce the 11/70 schematics to a netlist and feed it
to a suitable synthesis and floorplanning toolchain,
but the result of the synthesis will never meet your
speed requirements. I'd expect that you'll need to
do at least _some_ custom cell work, so be sure you're
facile with dorking with individual transistors and
precharge logic.
Maybe you should wait five years and see how fast
programmable logic gets ;-)
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Received on Tue Dec 11 2001 - 21:32:31 GMT