Hi guys,

Having no experience but some 'nand2tetris' and recently reading about verilog and the like, I'm interested to get an idea of the complexity, time and cost required to build a simple, but fast and power efficient ASIC given an algorithm it must be capable to execute.

I've been programming about half my life (I'm ~30), I understand broad concepts of hardware design and I have an idea that could earn money if fast and power-efficient enough, but I don't know what the order of magnitude is of the investment required.

Can you comment on that question?

Eric