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> All open source chip designs qualify, no further strings attached! Surely they have some threshold requirements that the thing actually works? How is this go
by kingosticks 6y ago
> All open source chip designs qualify, no further strings attached!
Surely they have some threshold requirements that the thing actually works? How is this going to work? I mean, if there's no investment required from me, what's the incentive for me to verify my design properly? What's the point in them fabbing a load of fatally bugged open-source designs?
- dwild 6y agoI'm pretty sure they'll expect a tiny bit of QA over an FPGA before fabbing them. I don't think they care much about what comes out of it though, whether it's "bugged open-source designs" or not, for sure they want less of the bugged one, but the end-goal isn't the projects, it's the people behind theses projects. Google wants more people that design chips, and then recruit them. This just goes on recruitment cost. They may be interested in the open source part of it, but as soon as they'll stop paying for it (and I'm pretty sure it's not going to stay for long, they mention up to 2021), the state of open source chip design will come back to the current status.
- jsnell 6y agoAll open source designs qualify, doesn't mean they get selected :/ If you look at the slides, they say that each run will be 40 designs, and they'll do one run this year and multiple next. Criteria for how they'll choose if there are more than 40 applicants TBD.