Digital DIY in ASIC, the cheap way

[The Proteus]

Not bad - but when the company you work for DOES digital synthesis chips,
it's kinda hard to sneak something like that in under the radar. 

A more feasible approach if you wanted to go the ASIC route would be to
design it in VHDL or Verilog, and then synthesize it for an FPGA. Use the
FPGA's in whatever you want - but if you ever get the cash to do an ASIC,
then you go to a vendor that will take your FPGA netlist and VHDL code,
and resynthesize it to their ASIC platform - most of these guys will do
this if you buy a large quantity (1,000 to 10,000) with no NRE - which
otherwise would be something along the lines of $50,000-$250,000 - too
rich for anyone's blood. :-)

My $0.02

The Proteus

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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Magnus Danielson wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I just wanted to contribute to the digital DIY thread... now if you
> want to do it more ultimately you would surely want to do it in an
> ASIC, right?
> 
> Now, doing ASIC or even full custom chips is not something you do on
> your average private budget, but sometimes there comes oppertunities
> which you can't refuse... when the company you work for makes an ASIC.
> So, then you can be smart enougth to construct things so that they
> could be used for digital synthesis.... as a side effect ;)
> 
> This is evil, but it can be done. Hehehehe >:)
> 
> Now back to the regular programing...
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> 
>