i think the question in my post has been misunderstood. i'm wondering, when will it be possible to simulate a SILICON device - such as the super nintendo.
instead of emulating the functional profile of the snes, we could run a physics simulator (at some level of abstraction) that contains all of the silicon circuitry and so forth which actually produces the functional profile.
that seems like a milestone towards simulating neural "devices" like the human brain.
i think the question in my post has been misunderstood. i'm wondering, when will it be possible to simulate a SILICON device - such as the super nintendo.
instead of emulating the functional profile of the snes, we could run a physics simulator (at some level of abstraction) that contains all of the silicon circuitry and so forth which actually produces the functional profile.
that seems like a milestone towards simulating neural "devices" like the human brain.