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Sorry, I could not make it through! Aside: Although not strictly custom silicon, one can get close to making a custom chip with a Programmable System On Chip (
by digitalsankhara 4y ago
Sorry, I could not make it through!
Aside: Although not strictly custom silicon, one can get close to making a custom chip with a Programmable System On Chip (PSoC) made by Cypress who look to have been "consumed". [1]
I did toy with the idea of making application specific "chips" from this system, but couldn't find enough inspiration. The design tooling - last time I looked - was pretty good.
[1] https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-bit-psoc-arm-cortex-microcontroller/ https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/microcontroller/32-b...
- elabajaba 4y agoHow is that different from a normal FPGA?
- wrywring 4y agoThey're more like microcontrollers with a small CPLD peripheral. Not enough programmable logic to implement an interesting IP core, last time I checked.
- digitalsankhara 4y agoIt is FPGA technology alongside analog blocks as well as other pre-defined peripherals available from the design tool. Most pin are unallocated and you drag and drop gates, ADCs counter etc etc and wire them up. If a block can be software controlled it is addressable via the ARM core and one can read hardware state in software.