Comments by "Siana Gearz" (@SianaGearz) on "The Promise of Open Source Semiconductor Design Tools" video.

  1. You prototype it in simulatable or synthesizable form, in simulation or on an FPGA. It can be even shipped into products as an FPGA. But i bet you will come up with something that either isn't 'new', you just missed part of the history lesson; or it will turn out not to be efficiently implementable in silicon, or will turn out inefficient from practical concerns, like lack of great tooling ecosystem. I welcome you to prove me wrong. Also saying "more efficient" incurs "... for WHAT exactly". There's a reason a microcontroller and a server CPU are very dissimilar, in spite of potentially sharing parts of an instruction set. Are you designing an instruction set or a microarchitecture? Two pairs of shoes.
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  2.  @empatikokumalar8202  Have you invented a transistor with sub 0.1ps tr? If not, why even mention teraherz?
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  3.  @empatikokumalar8202  Well if you don't have a basic building block, a logic gate, that can switch at THz speeds, you aren't going to have anything running at a THz clock speed. Can one make a more efficient processor? Sure. But starting off with ludicrous claims isn't helping. And if you did have a solid foundation for what you're claiming, you wouldn't be having the question you have opened the thread with, the path forward would be crystal clear.
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  4. I can't find your vid on Mead-Conway VLSI revolution, can you help me out?
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