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How did you actually count the transistors? Was it a completely maddening manual process or did you develop a tool or other approach to reduce toil and preserv
by metadat 4y ago
How did you actually count the transistors? Was it a completely maddening manual process or did you develop a tool or other approach to reduce toil and preserve sanity?
- kens 4y agoI traced out the layers of the chip using GIMP, which was tedious and took several days. I have a super-hacky program that extracts transistors from these layers, figures out connectivity, and generates gates from the transistors. So I didn't need to count the transistors one-by-one, but I did need to trace out each one.
- Gracana 4y agoI think it'd be interesting to see a bit of that process in a blog post. Maybe something about how you do what you do and how your techniques have progressed? Even if it's a hacky mess, it sounds neat.