Open Fabs

[The Doctor]

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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.

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