Happy new year everybody !
On 2020-01-01 00:28, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On 12/31/19, Marcin Jakubowski marcin@opensourceecology.org wrote:
Luke, any thoughts on you stepping up and coordinating the maskless stepper module of this crazy evolution?
as we (privately) discussed yesterday, there are 4 levels of NDAs: HDL tools, VLSI tools, Cell Libraries and Foudries.
i'm waaay overloaded by dealing with level 1 heavily and interacting with people at level 2 and 3.
david and the libre-silicon team are dealing with level *4* heavily, level 3 in a big way, and interacting with people at levels 2 and 1. they're the best people for this.
So who should I ask for help with 3 and 4 ?
My microcontroller design is progressing well, I'm getting down to individual cells and I bootstrapped the design with ProASIC3 FPGA cells but without precharacterised cell libraries and other silicon-proven information, I can not estimate the timings. Not to mention that things like SRAM arrays are a whole new territory...
Thanks for letting me discover about libresilicon !
l.
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