Quoting Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Mon 16 Jun 2008
05:51:21 PM PDT:
parties in GPU programming;
considering the amount of computing power they need, for the same
budget they can also make their own CPU's.
Even assuming man months of highly paid programmers I don't see how you
get from that cost to the budget for making your own CPU.
There are some open source CPU cores in VHDL for things like the SPARC
V8 around, if you want to try this out. There's also open source VHDL
bus interfaces, memory, etc.
Get yourself a copy of the appropriate tools and an appropriate FPGA
eval board, and you're off and running.
Once you have a solid design in FPGA, there are a number of fabs that
will take it and turn it into a (faster, smaller, lower power) ASIC,
with some form of guarantee (i.e. if it works in FPGA, and you follow
their design rules, you're guaranteed a working ASIC). They do the
fabs as multiproject wafers (like MOSIS)
Typical overall cost is in sub $100K range, from what I understand.
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