Talk:Gate count

The page seems to equate gates with transistors, but I was under the impression it meant logic gates (i.e. NAND & NOR gate count.) Am I wrong? --Pmetzger 02:27, 2 March 2006 (UTC)


 * A quick Google does not answer this one way or the other. If you can find a good answer and update the article that would be great. &mdash; ciphergoth 09:04, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I think the gate count was used when FPGAs were more or less similar across different manufacturers. Today, with many sofisticated architectural features and hardware building blocks like RAMs, clock managers, multigigabit transceivers, processors etc., the gate count becomes doubtful for use as criterion of an FPGA metrics. See e.g. Xilinx XAPP059 - Gate Count Capacity Metrics... 147.229.145.169 11:48, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Example
Could someone give a few examples of chips/microprocessors along with their uhm "gate count" ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Frap (talk • contribs) 00:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)