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I really don't know much but I do remember people who were deskilled out of hand chip layout. It's like component or analog skills. Yes, those are skills but th
by CalChris 8y ago
I really don't know much but I do remember people who were deskilled out of hand chip layout. It's like component or analog skills. Yes, those are skills but then suddenly no one needs them. Initially hand layout could say but we're better and that was true. But then tools got better and designs got a LOT bigger.
I think you can add this to the affordability argument. It was affordable for a research team to do a RISC where previously only big companies could do that.
- bogomipz 8y agoSure, that makes sense. Any idea how gate arrays contributed to the affordability of CPUs? I didn't understand that part of the quote and links I mentioned above.
- CalChris 8y agoI don't think gate arrays had anything to do with this then. They were just too small at the time; clearly that's not the case now. Someone else, anyone really, would know more.
- pvg 8y agoIt seems like they did. The page has a couple of references to contemporary papers that probably have more details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB86900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MB86900