What are 100M-gate applications?

[SC3K01]

I'm curious to know what kind of applications need 100M gates in a chip? :?

 

[eda_wiz]

May be an integrated SoC for GSM,WCDMA,802.11 a/b/g/n , UWB ,MP3/Mpeg4 Enc/decoder ..
Dont ask me the use of Such an SoC .....
can be used for a Ultra HiFi Mobile handset ...hehehe .. hey just kiddin


Well how about CPUs like P4, AMD ATHLON XP, OPTERON..... they might need 100Mgates..

 

[edavio]

3D graphic chips, video CODEC, multi-core processor.

 

[eda_wiz]

3D graphic chips, video CODEC, multi-core processor.

i dont hink 3D graphic chips, video CODEC need 100mgates

 

[edavio]

It depends on how much embedded memory. Pure logic doesn't cost so much gate.

 

[eternal_nan]

3d graphics chips are in the 30-40Mgate range. CPUs are also under 100M. The only chips I am aware of that are that large are FPGAs. I am using the definition of 1 gate being the area of a NAND2 small drive strength cell...

 

[xigu]

100M is too large, not easy realized with normal design process now.
more complex more timing more difficult, and more chip fail ...