RE: MISC-d Digest V99 #107
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- Subject: RE: MISC-d Digest V99 #107
- From: "Mindjammer" <mindjammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 14:51:59 -0500
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- In-Reply-To: <199912311233.EAA09085@value.net>
>This is based on a 500Mip .8u core. Chuck has also done projections
>for .6, .5, .35, .25, .15, and .1. .35u only runs at 3V and that limits
>the speed so the conservative numbers Chuck gave were 600Mip in .35u.
>Although he said an optimistic prediction might be 2 or 3 times that.
>In any event his conservative projections are around 1Kmips for the
>smaller processes at the moment. memory access would still be a
>bottleneck since we were talking about SDRAM giving 400Mips in .8u
>they can be pushed faster with a faster process but cannot keep
>up with 1G or 2 or 3G numbers.
MOSIS has a .35u fabrication process that can run at 5v, and a .18u
fabrication process that can run at 3.3v. What kind of speed could those
processes yield?