[Libre-silicon-devel] KiCAD VLSI design

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Friday, February 1, 2019, Christoph Maier <christoph.maier at ieee.org>
wrote:

> Catching up with this thread ...
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 5:45 PM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> <lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >
> > You may be thinking of a different couple of orders of magnitude less
> than the task I have in mind, here David. I am designing a quad core 800mhz
> design with L1/L2 cache, multi issue out of order vector processing,
> virtual memory and 16, 32 and 64 bit IEEE754 FP units (we may also add FP8,
> have to see).
> >
> >
> ok, so what is the transistor feature size, and the required
> reliability and repeatability of transistor parameters in the CMOS
> process that supports a design of such scale?


Don't know yet. Still a long way off. However it would not be a surprise to
find that one core took up the same area as a 4 core RISC design, just
because of the fact that it does 4 issue FP ops.

Monster, basically.

L.


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