Superconducting Technology Assessment - nitrd

2.7 MICROPROCESSORS – FUNDING
In the table below, “funding” means the funding exclusively for microarchitecture design and evaluation, which does
not include physical (circuit-level) chip design, fabrication, and testing.
The total budget for the microarchitecture development and evaluation tasks during the 2005-2010 time frame is approximately
$20 million (M) (Table 2-6). The Other Expenditures category includes expenses for purchase of equipment and software
(such as PCs, workstations, a multiprocessor simulation cluster, CAD and simulation tools, licenses, etc.), and travel.
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TABLE 2-6. FUNDING PROFILE FOR THE MICROARCHITECTURE DESIGN TASKS
Viable Architectural concept(s)
Instruction set, microarchitecture,
and processor organization for
a 50 GHZ demo
Chip specifications
and gate-level design
Simulation, performance evaluation,
and testing support
Total man years/year
Est. labor costs/year
Other expenditures
Total for year
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2
$0.3M
$0.2M
$0.5M
10
$2.5M
$1.5M
$4.0M
10
$2.5M
$1.5M
$4.0M
10
$2.5M
$1.5M
$4.0M
10
$2.5M
$1.5M
$4.0M
10
$2.5M
$1.5M
$3.5M