[J-core] Pondering j-core kickstarter ideas.

[Christopher Friedt]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>>> What would it take to make an actual, minimal hobbyist _device_?
>
> That's not a thing you can do in an FPGA, clocks require a timing
> crystal so you can't implement them with just gates. Your FPGA has to
> provide one those as existing circuits that the VHDL compiler knows how
> to connect your circuitry up to (these are called "libraries" in
> VHDL-speak).

I think I misunderstood the question and assumed you were talking
about a potential ASIC rather than an FPGA "device".