Comment by phendrenad2
9 hours ago
Does anyone else feel sad that you'll never get to design silicon at this kind of low level? I hope that someday nanotech reaches a point where I can design and print 1 u-meter process chips or something.
(I guess I could always buy hundreds of thousands of transistors and start soldering...)
At this level? You can use your favourite HDL and a FPGA, and then look into things like TinyTapeout and such. It's not as inaccessible as it seems!
HDL is fun and all, but actually choosing the physical layout and sizing of transistors seems like a much more fun puzzle.