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We had a procesor design course at the university. Single participants made 68k complexity designs, groups went to 286 and more complex parts. It was 6-8 hours
by lnsru 8y ago
We had a procesor design course at the university. Single participants made 68k complexity designs, groups went to 286 and more complex parts. It was 6-8 hours workload every week for 4 months. A year time is a lot! Manufacturing technology is another issue. Same design will deliver different results on 28 nm and 160 nm nodes.
- llampx 8y agoWhat I wonder about is the 10x factor here - all of these designs have already been invented and are available for perusal. How many people could come up with something like this with nothing but a knowledge of mathematics? I sometimes don't even know if I could invent the wheel if it wasn't already invented.
- lallysingh 8y agoRef: https://github.com/dugagjin/MIPS https://github.com/dugagjin/MIPS A MIPS implementation in VHDL. Most of the source files are < 50 lines of code. After a little bit of magic, almost any technical field is the application of a few principles. If you saw a rock roll down a hill, you'd probably wish you could roll your own stuff instead of lifting it.