[Coco] *WTH!?* iniCPU: A modern 6809-compatible CPU !!

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>>I'm guessing you all realise that this is a soft core, to be targeted
>>to an FPGA/ASIC and that you can't buy the silicon?!?
>
>No, I didn't realize that. I genuinely thought they were manufacturing
> the chips themselves... :-(
>
>I wonder how costly it would be to turn these designs into a bunch ICs?
>
>Cheers,
>Fedor

Fairly.  The programmer of course is a fixed expense often in the 500 USD 
range and up, then there is the cost of the programmable chip, and 
possibly a per copy royalty fee for the use of the file to program the 
chip.

Doing 100K copies would probably be cheap enough to do, but one copy would 
have to be just to satisfy ones curiosity.

>On 27/02/07, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > A more interesting question would be, can it be made 6309
>> > instruction
>>
>> set
>>
>> > compatible?
>>
>> With the source, of course!
>>
>> I'm guessing you all realise that this is a soft core, to be targeted
>> to an
>> FPGA/ASIC and that you can't buy the silicon?!?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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