xw3098

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by xw3098 3y ago
You might try starting here then. It’s a good community as well https://www.tinytapeout.com/ You’re not required to buy the tile to take the lessons
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by xw3098 3y ago
For very basic cmos nodes 24 turn is possible. But for most advanced node the lead time is months because that’s the minimum manufacturing time. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/three-month...
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by xw3098 3y ago
You can have this now https://efabless.com/
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by xw3098 3y ago
Price is relative. That could be Los Altos, California. Which is very nice, walkable with garages, great parks and outdoors, but not what most people would call affordable. :)
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by xw3098 3y ago
You should read this shorty story: https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
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by xw3098 3y ago
https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/06/09/xilinx-laun... Xilinx launches ‘industry’s first’ 20 nanometer space-grade FPGA chip
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by xw3098 3y ago
We don’t know what node they’re targeting so this is all speculation but if it’s anything below say 22nm then that’s finFET, and there’s nothing low cost about finFET at prototype volumes. If it’s not finFET then a non production mask set i
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by xw3098 3y ago
Process development is closer to chemical engineering and that’s not bad when compared with their salary.
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by xw3098 3y ago
There’s no way it’s lower cost. However what it could be is guaranteed line capacity and delivery dates. And if you’re doing small orders from a large foundry you don’t get that. Those things have value too and someone might be willing to
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by xw3098 3y ago
"by charging around 2'000 USD per prototype and letting an engineer wait for months" Is the $2000/prototype really the thing that's keeping the market closed. If we assume it takes one engineer one year to spec&#x2
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by xw3098 3y ago
Do you have a source for that? It seems like a problematic measure to use absolute dollars spent as it had to be normalized per capita and to cost of living. In just officers per capita the US more or less middle of the pack. https:/
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by xw3098 3y ago
Assume this was true. Now, for the sake of argument, say someone makes a mask with an error. How would you identify where in the manufacturing system the fault lies?
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by xw3098 3y ago
Researchers are working on solutions for the rest of us. Here’s one concept https://wiki.f-si.org/images/5/5c/Gabriel_Gouvine_MOOSIC_FSi...
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by xw3098 3y ago
In many Universities one can still have their design manufactured. For example: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&filt... That’s just the one I’m familiar with. I know there are others. Mostly th
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by xw3098 3y ago
> The iPhone 15 to me categorically proves m3 will be a pretty incremental improvement Unless you care about Mac GPU performance. "Overall, Apple's claim of up to 20% better performance seems to be right on the money, as is nor
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by xw3098 3y ago
You're not wrong but on the other hand, if the knife can't cut, that will hamper the chef. Also Wu had this to say, “The iPhone 15 Pro is the best camera available for its size, and while it can’t replace bigger dedicated systems,
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by xw3098 3y ago
The top 5 accounted for ~70% of the items. 260 million disposable vapes 30 million LED, solar and decorative lights 26 million cables 10 million USB sticks 7 million cordless headphones Maybe USB-C helps with the cables, I’m guessing many o
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by xw3098 3y ago
If you think San Francisco is bad now. You should’ve seen it in the 70s, when I was a kid. The crime was so bad it made the second sentence in the Wikipedia page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_in_the_1
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by xw3098 3y ago
That was a thing during Japan’s real estate bubble in the 80s but I doubt any banks still offer that.
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by xw3098 3y ago
It would be nice to have a bit of documentation on what makes this library special as well. It’s a significant time investment to learn a library like this one well. So some information on why one should choose this over, say, http:&#x2F