Python in The Economist

[Rhodri James]

On 25/09/2019 07:37, Frank Millman wrote:
> "Since chip design is expensive, and chip designers scarce, he and his 
> team have been working on software tools to simplify that task. The idea 
> is to describe a new algorithm in Python, a widely used programming 
> language, and then have software turn it into a circuit diagram that can 
> be fed into Pragmatic's chipmaking machines. That approach has attracted 
> interest from DARPA ..."

It is an interesting approach.  Our experience as IoT consultants is 
that clients want what they want, and chip manufacturers produce what 
they produce, and the overlap isn't as big as you would hope.  Making 
chip design simpler would certainly help.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd