Has any one used an ENIAC on a chip kit?

[rorypoole]

I have been looking for ENIAC on a chip kit on and off since I found out about it in 2002 when I was in college, it is such a cool peace of kit to have your own working ENIAC, but I have not seen one for sale or read about one being used?
has any one got the kit up and running? and if so I would love to know how it worked.

 

[granzeier]

Apparently, there are none available to the general public.

This looked pretty interesting to me, too. However, in searching, I came across this:

Even before the production run, I asked to buy one, figured it would be a kick to have something that could be stuck on a PCI board and (since the chip had the ability to connect any ENIAC unit connectable to any other in the original) to program the entire Moore School machine room in Visual Basic, displaying and allowing the plugging and setting of every ENIAC module for a run, maybe even adding in a random 3 hour MTBF tube killer.

After much e-mail, I was informed that since so few chips were made, they were only available to museums and academic institutions.

This is just above the bottom of this page: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/ENIAC.html

I did, however, find that there was a partial implementation on an FPGA (also at University of Pennsylvania). You can find the presentation from Emily Rose Blem (the woman who did the implementation) here: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/sunfest/docs/slides/blem03.pdf. Her paper on this (Technical Report TR-CST17OCT03) can be found here: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/sunfest/docs/papers/blem03.pdf.

If anyone else has any more information on public availability of the full ENIAC-on-a-chip, or a full implementation of ENIAC in programmable logic, I would also be interested.

 

[rorypoole]

I wonder how big ENIAC and ENIAC on a chip would be if built with discrete components?
if the design for ENIAC on a chip was open then maybe a lot of them could be made, maybe with kickstarter funding?