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Board Hardware
Re: Process-invariant hardware metric: hash-meters per second (η-factor)
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on 26/07/2013, 02:05:33 UTC
But the biggest problem by far is that parasitic capacitance scales in really funny ways across process nodes an even between fabs.
Also, the parasitic capacitance may not be entirely parasitic. Check out bitfury's post where he describes how he used 1/4 of the chip area to place bypass capacitors close to the sources of the current spikes:
unfortunately 26%-28% of DIE AREA is just capacitors Sad not transistors... not logic... that's big sacrifice and it won't be stable especially in low voltage without that... capacitors placed near flip-flops;
After I read above I started thinking about using the Miller effect with additional large transistors and an additional higher supply voltage to multiply the filtering capacitance. I don't think thats feasible without the additional steps to produce thicker gate oxide than the one used in the normal logic transistors.