Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips

Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by pclmulqdq on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:58AM (#23759329)

The soft core approach has many advantages, but FPGA companies have dropped the ball on single-unit (hobbyist) sales.

Chips that cost $1000 from a distributor cost 1/10th to 1/100th the price when you have a relationship with the manufacturer, mostly because distributors can't sell them very quickly and have to keep a ton of stock to have the SKUs you want.

On a modern FPGA, processor clocks of 200-300 MHz are possible to get with designs that aren't huge.

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Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips by LargoLasskhyfv on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:43AM (#23760374)

http://www.myirtech.com/list.asp?id=630 looks nice for something under 300$ AND 4GB RAM, but i think the embedded quad-core ARM is still faster than anything you can 'emulate' on the FPGA.

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