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Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving by anthonix1 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:28PM (#41422141)
AHh gotcha.

Well yeah I reckon you render a full custom 4004 w/ koru patterned transistors into about 4m x 4m stained glass panel. Would look good as the foyer panel for the CS dept at the University of Waikato

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Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving by Taniwha on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:38PM (#41422187)
Probably best to tape it out to https://tinytapeout.com/ first
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Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving by anthonix1 on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:46PM (#41422224)
Do they support curvilinear cells?
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Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving by Taniwha on Monday September 02, 2024 @12:07AM (#41422489)
The simple openlane flow just uses standard cells, but you have the ability to just tape out polygons so curvyish is possible
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Re:The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving by Taniwha on Sunday September 01, 2024 @10:38PM (#41422190)
(I already have a 4-bit CPU there)
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