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Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs
- blowski 3y agoThe course sounds brilliant, the right mix of technical and crafty. I'm not sure I'm capable of actually doing it though - I struggle with most hardware stuff.
- Taniwha 3y agoI taught a TT course at the local Makerspace last year, I'm pretty convinced that most capable programmers can be taught some simple verilog and can knock out a simple design pretty easily The hard part is learning to think about time and heavy microparallelism so start with something simple
- Taniwha 3y agoTinytapeout 6 closes in a couple of weeks https://tinytapeout.com https://tinytapeout.com not too late to knock out your own chip. The basic idea is that you buy a chunk of a die, your design's pins get multiplexed to the outside, you pay a bit extra and get a dev board Chips take time - I taped out my 2 TinyTapeout CPU designs over a year ago, the board arrived a couple of months ago, TT3 is (as I understand) almost in the mail (I have a PDP8 there), and TT4 silicon has just come back (I have a RISCV subset there), TT5 is at the fab, and TT6 tapes out in 2 weeks. Real silicon works like this, you start on a (big) design, do the creative stuff for a couple of months, for a year you test it to hell, by the time you tapeout you're done with it, then you start on the next design, about the time you're in the middle if doing the fun creative bit the old silicon comes back
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoThat looks like an April Fool’s story. The Register usually runs one, every year.
- NietTim 3y agoIt is not, original youtube video from 2 weeks ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdF_nzMW_i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdF_nzMW_i8
- noud 3y agoBut can it run Doom?
- marci 3y agoIn a future where most of the data of the 21st century has been lost, I wonder what future archeologist will think of our worship of Rick Astley.
- ralferoo 3y agoActually, I don't think they're ever going to give him up.
- howerj 3y agoDoes anyone know how much memory is available on board to each design for the tiny tapeout project? If each project could include something like a FPGA Block RAM I feel the project would have (much greater) utility and flexibility. Although I understand that might not be possible.
- Taniwha 3y agoYou have to make your own, some people have SRAM compilers - depending on how big a tile you choose the more memory you get (it's going to be in the 100s to low 1000s of bits)
- 127 3y agoYou should probably subscribe to Bitluni. He does a lot of creative electronics stuff like this.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoBitluni's video about this project is linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdF_nzMW_i8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdF_nzMW_i8
- GabeIsko 3y agoRickrolling is dead anyway. You definitely get an ad now.
- grishka 3y agoThe modern web is unusable without an ad blocker anyway, being served an ad instead of a rickroll would be least of your complaints without one.