BitGrid - brilliant, or waste of time??

Wherein Mike Warot describes a novel approach to computing which follows George Gilders call to waste transistors.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Signs of life

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I ran into Joshua, who might be able to help me get a chip made! He's been through chip design, and is a EE at heart. I laid out what I ...
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Thursday, March 17, 2005

BitGrid in 25 words or less

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Get bit from each neighbor concatenated 4 bit number becomes index One lookup table per neighbor
Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Bitgrid pro and con - AKA the Thesis

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If the Bitgrid is such a great idea, why haven’t I heard of it before? One word answer: “Efficiency” My review of the current...
Friday, March 11, 2005

Why we need a Free Hardware Foundation

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We have the Free Software Foundation as a result of Richard Stallmans irritation with closed source software. I propose a parallel organizat...
Thursday, March 10, 2005

The bitgrid story

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The Von Neuman architecture - Our current standard It all started with the realization that most of the transistors in a modern computer are...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005

The bitgrid future

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As I stated over at Herb Sutter's blog entry about concurrency , I think the future of computing will include the bitgrid, in some form....
Sunday, March 06, 2005

Distilling a vision into something coherent is tough!

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I've been working on my spreadsheets demos of the bitgrid concept. My latest efforts are online . Today's effort BitGrid-Learning01....
Thursday, March 03, 2005

BitGrid emulation available

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Earlier this week I had a flash of insight and decided to make a bitgrid emulator in a spreadsheet, and it worked. I was able to test out a ...
Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Preventing Patents?

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It occurs to me that I have a good idea, but I really doubt my ability to successfully extract the almightly dollar from it, so I want to pr...
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Friday, July 09, 2004

Finding a market

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I had a break at the recent SuperComm in Chicago, where I was taking pictures for work. I talked to one of the publishers on an embedded sys...
Friday, June 11, 2004

The fine line between Genius and Insanity

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I've figured out why nobody has come up with a true bitgrid yet... The idea is insane Everyone worries themselves sick trying to...
Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Custom Silicon

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Thanks to Wes Felter and Doc Searls for the pointers to MOSIS and ChipX . I've learned that I've got a lot to learn. The inves...

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I'm trying to change computing as we know it, in a small way. I've got an idea for a chip design, which I intend to see cast into si...
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