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So how about a circuit board where the traces are made of liquid metal
that can be made to reflow into new configurations? This way, the
board can be configured into an entirely different circuit in less
than a minute <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/prototype-of-the-worlds-first-fluid-circuit-board-can-be-physically-rewired-in-less-than-a-minute-startup-claims-could-make-hardware-iteration-1-000-times-faster-than-traditional-pcb>.

Did Xilinx have some kind of reconfigurable gate system? As I recall,
you had to reload the gate configuration into the chip every time it
was powered up.
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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> posted:

So how about a circuit board where the traces are made of liquid metal
that can be made to reflow into new configurations? This way, the
board can be configured into an entirely different circuit in less
than a minute <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/prototype-of-the-worlds-first-fluid-circuit-board-can-be-physically-rewired-in-less-than-a-minute-startup-claims-could-make-hardware-iteration-1-000-times-faster-than-traditional-pcb>.

Did Xilinx have some kind of reconfigurable gate system? As I recall,
you had to reload the gate configuration into the chip every time it
was powered up.

Get this to work at the 10nm level and we change FPGAs into recompilable Standard Cells.
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MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> posted:

So how about a circuit board where the traces are made of liquid metal
that can be made to reflow into new configurations? This way, the
board can be configured into an entirely different circuit in less
than a minute
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/prototype-of-the-worlds-first-fluid-circuit-board-can-be-physically-rewired-in-less-than-a-minute-startup-claims-could-make-hardware-iteration-1-000-times-faster-than-traditional-pcb>.

Did Xilinx have some kind of reconfigurable gate system? As I recall,
you had to reload the gate configuration into the chip every time it
was powered up.

Get this to work at the 10nm level and we change FPGAs into recompilable Standard Cells.

When CPUs have certain things "fused off" either because they didn't
work or for market segmentation, could the same technique be used for
one time programmability on a fine level?
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On Wed, 27 May 2026 23:27:18 -0400, Josh Vanderhoof wrote:

When CPUs have certain things "fused off" either because they didn't
work or for market segmentation, could the same technique be used
for one time programmability on a fine level?

Been done. I can remember in the early days of virtualization
capability becoming common, some machines from a certain vendor
shipped with chips that had that capability turned off in the ROM
BIOS, in such a way that any OS that booted on it was unable to
override.
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Josh Vanderhoof <x@y.z> writes:

MitchAlsup <user5857@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:

Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= <ldo@nz.invalid> posted:

So how about a circuit board where the traces are made of liquid metal
that can be made to reflow into new configurations? This way, the
board can be configured into an entirely different circuit in less
than a minute
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/prototype-of-the-worlds-first-fluid-circuit-board-can-be-physically-rewired-in-less-than-a-minute-startup-claims-could-make-hardware-iteration-1-000-times-faster-than-traditional-pcb>.

Did Xilinx have some kind of reconfigurable gate system? As I recall,
you had to reload the gate configuration into the chip every time it
was powered up.

Get this to work at the 10nm level and we change FPGAs into recompilable
Standard Cells.

When CPUs have certain things "fused off" either because they didn't
work or for market segmentation, could the same technique be used for
one time programmability on a fine level?

e-fuses are commonly used for that capability. The key is that
once blown, they -cannot- be reconfigured.
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