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Re:Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype by marcodiego on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:19AM (#33786140)
> 18 24"x24" wirewrap breadboards

This is still in the realm of what someone can manage entirely in the head. I'd love to have a service which I could send an HDL of something around this complexity and get the chip on my doorstep. I'd like it also to have a reasonable cost.

Re:Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype by tlb on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:37AM (#33786283)
If it's all digital logic, you can do this now with FPGAs. Modern ones would have no trouble implementing something like a 68030, and the tools can synthesize it from Verilog.

The great thing about FPGAs is that if you have a bug (which never happens to me, but I hear it happens to other people) you can fix it and recompile in minutes.

Re:Motorola 68030 wire wrap prototype by pjc50 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @06:58AM (#33786453)
By hand? Wirewrap? That's going to be $1k per board!

For an actual chip, "shuttle service" does exist at even higher pricing.