Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:47:33 -0700 | From | Peter Monta <> | Subject | Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??) |
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> Yes, very good. I was thinking a FPGA but I couldn't find any that were > approiate.
FPGAs are indeed pretty good for low-quantity designs, but FPGA manufacturers need to get a clue. The bit-level format is closed, locking you into a single place-and-route tool (the only exception I'm aware of is some Xilinx 6xxx? part), and synthesis tools remain expensive (though some are free or nearly so for sub-10k-gate).
There's an open-source EDA (electronic design automation) initiative, the name of which I've forgotten, that looked pretty promising for simulation at least.
Cheers, Peter Monta pmonta@imedia.com Imedia Corp.
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