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The time for open source chips is now. Efabless.com
by kumarski 5y ago
The time for open source chips is now.
Efabless.com
- sydthrowaway 5y agoEr, why do we think open source chips enhance security, when vendors spend $100mns trying to secure their devices?
- AnthonyMouse 5y agoThe biggest problem we have right now is that someone finds a vulnerability in a chip which is at the same time in widespread use and no longer supported by the manufacturer. If everything is open source, anyone can patch the vulnerability even if the OEM won't, and then someone does.
- JanisL 5y agoI worked at an electronics place a while back and I remember there were issues in an old chip in some older products. Not talking anything major here but a few known bugs that could have been fixed. But usually nobody had the time allowed to go fix up the old firmware on old products because there were always other things to deal with that were deemed to be a higher business priority. Unfortunately there's often more money to be made by the manufacturer by making the costs of these bugs externalities on the entire market than there is to be made by fixing them. Even when vendors have large budgets to work on security work done on end of life products ends up being typically abandoned because there's just more money to be made elsewhere at the moment. Open source chips could help deal with this end of life issue.
- reustle 5y agoClickable link: https://Efabless.com https://Efabless.com
- dlsa 5y agoAnyone familiar with ASICs? If I wanted a 8 x AND gate, what would that cost, ballpark figure? I'm just trying to get a handle on the costs and figure that might be a good measure.
- jacquesm 5y agoIf you wanted an 8xAND gate I would recommend the 74LS30. There, saved you a bunch of money.
- OJFord 5y agoI think maybe GP means 'what does it cost to get a simple design on a die say for sake of argument 8xAND', i.e. something very small and simple like that, so that it's all fixed cost.
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- dlsa 5y agoYou'd be correct.
- dlsa 5y agoI was asking the question to get a handle on base process pricing and experiences for a design currently utilising 500k LUTs and residing in a fpga. But I didn't want to get too bogged down in details. Do you still recommend the 74LS30 for that?
- jacquesm 5y agoNo, then you should contact a fab that does shuttle runs and take it from there.
- tgv 5y agoI, too, consider it naive to think that a relatively unorganized bunch of people are going to make good chips, write good drivers and support the whole lot for free, and deliver a product that's competitive. There's so much stacked against it. Case in point: Linux on the desktop.
- baybal2 5y ago> I, too, consider it naive to think that a relatively unorganized bunch of people are going to make good chips, It's naive to thing that relatively unorganized bunch of people wrote the most popular OS in existence.
- mdp2021 5y ago> Linux on the desktop You mean it's fully doable and going to become a standard in practice for our peers?