The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy in the World
>The most amazing part about the whole process is that they got the 6502 right in one try. Quoting On the Edge:
Bil Herd summarizes the situation. “No chip worked the first time,” he states emphatically. “No chip. It took seven or nine revs [revisions], or if someone was real good they would get it in five or six.”<p>In some ways (and I'm speaking in a general sense) situations like that actually make me more nervous than when I know there's a problem. I get this uneasy "there's no way it <i>really</i> went that smoothly" feeling that can be hard to shake.<p>Then again, my personality is to approach most things in life iteratively, so that probably plays a part as well. Great read either way.