[Hardware] The market of ASICs (One GigaKey / Second?)

[Michael Meeuwisse]

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.

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