[sdiy] Wouldn't it be nice...

[Tim Ressel]

I should have been more clear. I was talking about
analog ICs. Like old CES chips. Not easy to do with
verilog.

--TR


--- Andrew Martens <amartens at interchange.ubc.ca>
wrote:
> Are you talking about someone actually designing the
> silicon to do it, for a
> perfect drop-in replacement, or just something that
> acts the same but has a
> different form factor (ie, FPGA-based, or a
> microcontroller that emulates
> it)?
> 
> Designing something in an FPGA is always an option,
> but you're usually going
> to end up with something surface-mount with wayyy
> too many pins.
> Microcontroller emulations might work, but it would
> depend on what you're
> doing, and you'd still end up with something that's
> not a drop-in
> replacement.
> 
> One could ideally design something that could be
> implemented on silicon, but
> the costs of manufacturing low-run devices like that
> are usually
> prohibitively expensive (from what I learned from my
> profs).  It could be
> done as a project, since layout software is usually
> available in the
> university labs (or alternately, good design
> software that'll do the layout
> from VHDL/Verilog for you).  Sometimes there are
> unemployed bums out there
> (like myself) who probably have the time and skills
> to do it, but don't have
> any access to the university equipment.  Hmmmm, or
> is my account there still
> active?  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Ressel" <madhun2001 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Synth-Diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 11:19 AM
> Subject: [sdiy] Wouldn't it be nice...
> 
> 
> > Yo,
> >
> > I keep running across examples of university
> student's
> > papers on the nifty little ICs they've made in
> class.
> > Wouldn't it be nice if some student took it upon
> > themselves to re-create some of the long-lost
> chips we
> > all miss?
> >
> > Just thought I'd throw that out there. Ya never
> > know...
> >
> > --TR
> 


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