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Re:Homemade IC (2018) by phkahler on Sunday October 13, 2019 @08:20AM (#21239997)
That will take something like 20000 transistors.
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Re:Homemade IC (2018) by ofcourseianal on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:23PM (#21241216)
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Here, I think you dropped a few zeroes.

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Re:Homemade IC (2018) by jabl on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:39PM (#21242436)
The Pulp project claims to have designed a RV32E core in 12 kGE. Which, I believe, implies around 48k transistors with CMOS logic.
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Re:Homemade IC (2018) by sanxiyn on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:37PM (#21244067)
Note that original MIPS (1983) was done in 25k transistors.
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