Hello masters,
Is it possible to Design and fabricate IC Chip at home using some sort of photo etching or some thing...may be it will not be perfect ie let it consume more power,too big in size and etc.But logically it should work.
I think it must work with keil stuff.
steffi
If you are designing it, then it would be up to you to make it so!
you could try a huge board with thousands of sot-23 transistors ;)
my serious answer...look into printed transistor method. It can be done if you can get the right materials. use silk print method.
Why?
Surely FPGA or similar has to be the way to go for home-made "custom" chips?!
Surely FPGA or similar has to be the way to go...
That wouldn't be home-made - jsut working :)
Many old-timers made their first radio using a razor & safety-pin (Foxhole radio) This is a home-made diode
bizarrelabs.com/foxhole.htm
when you have a diode going, go on to make a transistor, then go on an a circuit.
easy ;)
Does anyone know how many transistors Intel used in the original 8032?
It would then be interesting to extrapolate the size of an 8032 built from individual hand-made, point-contact transistors...
Memory would be hand-woven magnetic core, of course...
:-)
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8008 had 3500 transistors. 8080 had 6000 transistors. 8085 had 6500 transistors.
The 8080 was a quite general 8-bit processor, but without any peripherials. The 8085 integrated (among other things) the clock generator.
It wouldn't be unreasonable to think that the original 8032 had somewhere around 5-6k transistors. The core is way simpler than the 8080 but to that comes the built-in devices for standalone microcontroller use.