-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/28/2015 06:27 PM, grarpamp wrote:
Universities have always had fabs too.
The Rochester Institute of Technology should still have theirs online. Fun times.
Can you as a reasonably learned hobbyist go observe an Intel run through GloFab from start to finish? What about for the chip inside your phone? Your makerbot? Your RPi? Your USRP? Your own mask? No? Well... that's a problem.
Open designs that operate much the same way are going to take a while to get up to par, too. There are good FPGA designs, but then the "open gate synthesis" holy wars kick into high gear. Anybody got any popcorn? I'm out. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Pills for breakfast. I'm so science fictional." --Doktor Sleepless -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVuQVPAAoJED1np1pUQ8RkAE4P/RQgja9/HKvU6SFXY6B1Rwdi kERse875CAwBzKgQDzm+KS7EBoDioELxnJ3dzhvcDSWjaTkZd4nLRaGVK1+dHEns 38IUrwYqpWKh7FNqPDdYm1R0JADYe6tFeY0wN94gKK5e5SGSfBiXa4SSo+raJiGp dZ6zo9HKrd1bYoqi4ofqhu80AMq1FsQNNEUwD2Kb577nDJEi7rF39c7NVLjS2BcK fHAIwUIaOKTQxtUNpJuDZvzmAVdX3Hy+EP7DYozijnhY50av00cWVmyguM1XTInE tJipJTpQev9nmQf5XNxe6q1IycIu1ndHJW02JLkHuDA2b6BF7BMIVjcKa+A89uI0 wKokS3IhMqaLK1p8S4qMcwk3aveRLgecvgOu2za2W81YGStdToYtUis4+cFzdBp/ BZqVvxLY1SmxPkWINzBrP4LIynsxN0GqtJo7gJB3v6u+9oG25pWcLxjEsg8OBoT9 itfTik0FArT3iKtOHXFg1SEOI6PDfslD2g32fmz/weeY1bMBVrgv06fM3ThsP8dv 5d55F4Ztp/MfToKMEoUSG0bPmbcFeSMDm46vNX9uronbzvXNW9gQsyyP81HskoQk YTNQ500HM1eKLHwg6/aFVUUYyGwtBcnUiLJQoEtgTqBhwHTYAR2pjt3WIAIOOq2B nRU4JUGMwwcF8JFCTboa =unQ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----