asciilifeform: to china, or to me, and you, it's $0

asciilifeform: the point is not the cost.

asciilifeform: what does it mean if asia has all of the factories, but is utterly dependant on winblows and a stack of monopoly turdware as tall as empire state building ?

asciilifeform: mircea is mistaken when he writes that china controls ic manufacture.

asciilifeform: aha and they won't even take your job if you aren't using cadence's cell libs.

asciilifeform: afaik the only customer is usg.

asciilifeform: but, it is conceivable that - at this point - all new designs.

asciilifeform: and other 'on the cheap' jobs.

asciilifeform: just the bitcoin miners.

asciilifeform: also to prevent taking the design to another fpga.

asciilifeform: i.e. to prevent you from curing the ethernet card.

asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating the last 100+ xilinx threads - the closed architecture of -all- fpga vendors is specifically to enable this 'business model'

asciilifeform: most of the more complicated ones being unusable in practice (e.g. ethernet controller that 'expires' after N frames)

asciilifeform: xilinx ships a set of identially-functioning turdlibraries for both languages.

asciilifeform: verilog is at least tolerable

asciilifeform: aka a turd.

asciilifeform: decimation: months of experimentation << the end result is a product which cannot be understood, function of which cannot be rationally explained, and which will break on the slightest deviation from the parent hardware

asciilifeform: conform to the timing diagram - or die.

asciilifeform: incidentally, fpga work shits straight into the faces of folks who think that 'anything can be slow-prototyped'

asciilifeform: virtually impossible to do well from scratch (vs vendor turdware) without the unobtainable internal docs

asciilifeform had that one printed & bound

asciilifeform: ask a 'bios tweak' aficionado.

asciilifeform: normally these are determined experimentally.

asciilifeform: not to my satisfaction.

asciilifeform: just forget a refresh sometimes. or violate one of the many mandatory command sequences.

asciilifeform wrote a ddr2 controller for 'xilinx' chip once. it is amazingly easy to create a dysfunctional one with behaves like, for instance, the one pictured in that paper.

asciilifeform: decimation: overpowers << skeptical until demonstrated in field (i.e. x86 pc) rather than laboratory (fpga with custom dram controller)

asciilifeform: dignork: forget code. the thing, as stated on own site, doesn't even threaten to make elementary sense.

asciilifeform: it's dreary and insults the reader's intelligence merely by existing.

asciilifeform: i deliberately didn't even bring up the whole thing's (almost certain) reliance on tor and related idiocy

asciilifeform: arbitrators won't immediately run off and do whatever the fuck they like with the secret because... because what? magical drm goggles glued onto their skulls?

asciilifeform: no. why would they do that. we have l33t crypt0-d00dz now.

asciilifeform: what it actually takes in real life, to establish the kind of relationships needed

asciilifeform: 'slur' << i love how these nitwits show no symptoms whatsoever of having bothered to study how secrets were sold historically, from babylon to cold war, etc

asciilifeform: and disputes settled by showing the actual secret to five randomly selected lusers

asciilifeform: memory paper << snore. 1) serious folks using dram - use ecc dram. 2) serious folks do not allow opponent to execute arbitrary strange on their von neumann box 3) serious folks doing truly serious things use sram.