Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!unido!infbs!tubsibr!buschman From: buschman@tubsibr.uucp (Andreas Buschmann) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Mass produced custom chips Message-ID: <1991Apr25.173915.29750@tubsibr.uucp> Date: 25 Apr 91 17:39:15 GMT References: <12785@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Sender: buschman@tubsibr.uucp (Andreas Buschmann) Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 19 lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes: > And (more down to earth, or anyway MOSIS) why shouldn't an >encryption chip have a 500-bit-wide ALU? Some years ago there was an RSA encryption chip constructed here as a project, which used a 900-bit-wide adder. It was full custom. I don't know if there were build more then som example chips, or even if it is available somewhere. The rights are at Siemens now, at leas I think so, but I havn't heard of it again. /|) Andreas Buschmann /-|) TU Braunschweig, Germany (West) ^^^^ was bitnet: buschman%tubsibr@dbsinf6.bitnet uucp: buschman@tubsibr.uucp