Semisol on Nostr: it is economically infeasible to: - Make an IC design that uses only open IP blocks - ...
it is economically infeasible to:
- Make an IC design that uses only open IP blocks
- Find a good process node with an open PDK
- Do reproducible synthesis, placement, routing and other steps of the ASIC flow
- Verify with extremely high confidence that ICs received are the same as the sent mask
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