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Originally Posted by grelbfarlk
Since there is a new chip, what's the pincount and the manufacturer of this new chip, what process node is it? Is it TSMC? What frequency does it run at?
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As you know (or should know) this new 'chip' is still under development. The days of producing development prototypes in silicon (like Commodore did) are long gone. Today's ASICs and SOCs are often developed via
FPGA prototyping:-
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1. Running a SoC design on FPGA prototype is a reliable way to ensure that it is functionally correct... About a third of all current SoC designs are fault-free during first silicon pass...
2. Time-to-market (TTM) is reduced from FPGA prototyping... After the design process, FPGAs are ready for production, while standard cell ASICs take more than six months to reach production.
3. Development cost: Development cost of 90-nm ASIC/SoC design tape-out is around $20 million, with a mask set costing over $1 million alone.
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INTRINSIX: SoC, ASIC, and Complex FPGA Design
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Complex FPGA Design
Field Programmable Gate Arrays are often the best end-game for today's product companies and can be your fastest path to initial product proof of concept or even full production when unit volumes are small...
FPGA as Prototype and Software Development Tool
Intrinsix often recommends and incorporates a methodology that utilizes FPGAs as a critical component of an end-game custom SoC. Because processors enable software to run on these systems, the sooner that the software team can begin to boot the system and try their algorithms on real hardware, the faster the product can get to market. Moreover, funding and budget cycles can be accommodated via real prototypes to prove system functionality and to tweak performance.
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In the current Amiga market it makes zero sense to produce new ASIC custom chips, and perfect sense to implement them in FPGA.
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Originally Posted by grelbfarlk
Is it a drop in replacement for Alice or Lisa, is it 84P PLCC? Is the new chip ceramic and military rated too?
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