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Article #10402Re: Mass produced custom chips
From: John Mashey
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 05:50
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 05:50
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In article <6286@optilink.UUCP> manley@optilink.UUCP (Dave Manley) writes:
>Now, maybe your question should be: Will the day ever come when we can cheaply,
>fast build custom CPUs?
If only it were so easy ....
One also needs to:
a) Cheaply and quickly generate the corresponding set of of
diagnostics for both design verification and production.
I especially want to see the ones for custom new designs with
multi-processor, 2-level cache coherency... generated quickly...
and worse:
b) Cheaply and quickly generate the corresponding set of
compilers, debuggers, libraries....
Now, there has been progress in both of those areas, so it's hardly
hopeless..... but not easy :-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!mash From: mash@mips.com (John Mashey) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips Message-ID: <2548@spim.mips.COM> Date: 23 Apr 91 05:50:11 GMT References: <12742@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <6286@optilink.UUCP> Sender: news@mips.COM Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: winchester.mips.com