How would you like a failed crowdfunded project? Cute idea and all, but "Tape-out in November" and "The peripherals like UART, PWM, I2C, etc., still need to be integrated." screams "we have no idea what we're doing".https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1032809991000997889 …
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Seriously, this isn't how this works. This isn't how any of this works. You haven't even started validation. Where's the budget for the second spin, since the first one isn't going to work? $22k for an entire campaign to produce a custom ASIC? What?
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$22k is maybe enough for one mosis run of, what, ten dice? *maybe*.
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And probably not a run of three-core chips with peripherals, RAM, and 72 I/O.
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Dumb idea, but could the project be done with FPGA instead of custom ASIC ? At least you can iterate. Seems there's already some core https://opencores.org/project/a-z80
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They already have the cores running on an FPGA. And you can already buy cheaper FPGAs that will fit that design than the price they're charging for a single chip, which makes this whole thing even sillier. The only thing an FPGA won't give you is native 5V I/O.
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