<cr1901_modern>
I'm starting to get confused w/ all the open silicon vendors and projects- MOSIS, a second project like MOSIS I forget, efabless, OnchipUIS, SiFive, and now this project
<cr1901_modern>
Someone should do a compare and contrast
<Ultrasauce>
great problem to have
<cr1901_modern>
If I'm going to sell a kidney to fund this (/s), which project is the best place to give my money?
<cr1901_modern>
"a second project like MOSIS I forget" <-- if anyone remembers I'd be appreciative. It's a semiconductor company in Europe that allows batching for 200nm or so
<Ultrasauce>
probably one that involves architectures made in the last 30 years
<cr1901_modern>
I mean, gotta start somewhere. But I wouldn't trust this product's silicon to be a drop-in-place for, say, your Apple II. Even Visual6502 has had trouble doing that
<qu1j0t3>
haha, this guy is an Amiga fan
<cr1901_modern>
I never got into Amiga. I collect old IBM clones which makes me a pleb in vintage computer land.
<cr1901_modern>
I would love an Acorn Archimedes or another ARMv2 computer tho
* qu1j0t3
gives cr1901_modern the retrocomputing collector handshake.
<cr1901_modern>
You didn't know :o?
<qu1j0t3>
i probably did on some level.
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<qu1j0t3>
my retrocomputing interests have driven my electronics interest, but now i'm in analog land, who knows when i'll surface
<cr1901_modern>
Well, if I want to play w/ ARMv2, the Amber project exists
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<qu1j0t3>
cr1901_modern: i just don't remember seeing you in freenode retrocomputing channels, i lurk in #classiccmp
<cr1901_modern>
But idk if a C compiler for it does
<qu1j0t3>
retargeting lcc would not be a lot of work.
<qu1j0t3>
(that's what the magic-1 guy did, but ARMv2 would be easier, since it's far more conventional)
<cr1901_modern>
the magic-1 guy is... something else
<cr1901_modern>
http://opencores.org/project,amber "For example there is no reset logic, all registers are reset as part of FPGA initialization" :/ Ahh well. Still prob fun to play w/