Re: 65032: Re-designed 65c832

[russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com (Matthew T. Russotto)]

In article <3992E16A.EEC44440@inetnebr.com>,
Roy and/or Janet Miller  <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:
}So, let me see if I have this right, what you are proposing then is a software
}emulation of a chip that doesn't exist, is that right? It's not a bad idea, if
}that is what you are doing, but I got the impression from your posts that you
}were designing a new chip in hardware, and that isn't a cheap trick :-)

This would be a hardware implementation of a chip that doesn't exist.
That it is done by programming a gate array rather than by etching it
in sand doesn't make it any less hardware.

}Arkain wrote:
}
}> If I use a 100 pin TQFP pASIC3 FPGA from Quick Logic, then all I need to do
}> is program it. It'll act like the processor I want. I can even get a limited
}> number of demo chips imprinted with the program for free! I'm already 2 or 3
}> steps ahead of you. ;-)
}>
}> As for the price? $21.50 per chip if I buy in sets of 90. Since I don't
}> expect to see any real demand for this new A2, I doubt that I'll do much
}> more than get a set of free demo chips for my own prototype.
}>
}> Arkain
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