Burning chips?

Question

Can someone tell me in layman's terms, how can I burn chips for my own use? What do I need to burn the chips? Where do I get the chips? How do I install the chip on the motherboard or card after I burn it? What card is that that holds the chip? Thanks.

Where do I get the card that holds the chip?

Answer 1

What chips do you plan to program? Do you have the program to burn into the IC? If so, you need to get a device programmer for that specific IC. Once, it is programmed, you need to solder the chip to the board. Believe me, this is something you cannot do, if you're talking about replacing a processor on a motherboard.

Answer 2

I burn chips too! (not literally).

I use chips called CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) from Altera ( http://www.altera.com ) and Xilinx, Inc. ( http://www.xilinx.com ). These are blank chips which you put programs written in VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) and Verilog to configure the chip in any way you want. You can make all the logic circuits you want, design memory and even burn an 8-bit or 16-bit processor, video controller, lan controller, usb controller, etc in it.

You would need a CPLD/FPGA Development System which consists of an FPGA board (such as Spartan3/3E from Digilent, Inc. http://www.digilentinc.com ), VHDL or Verilog Compiler/Tools (ISE from Xilinx, Inc. and Quartus II from Altera) and a USB cable to download/burn your code into the chip from your PC.

You can download free open source codes known as IP cores which are pre-built programs for processors, microcontrollers, vga controllers, etc.

So I guess you can really burn chips, but you have to know where you will use it and of course you have to learn the tools of the trade. Good Luck!

Answer 3

I'm also a newbie at toasting a PC. Just exactly what chips are you going to burn and where exactly do you need them. I'm quite surprised because I've got about a dozen different cpu coolers here so that my chips won't fry but here you are who needs to burn his chips.