Le lundi 21 FÃvrier 2005 23:49, Attila Kinali a Ãcrit :
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:31:02 +0100
>
> Nicolas Boulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You don't plan to tape out an asic by end of june ?!
>
> I think Timothy knows what he is doing.

sur.

I work for a compagny that produice chips for space program. We need 18 month 
or more to do it.

>
> > The fpga board could help debugging, and if you're lucky asic could be
> > ready for decembre.
>
> Does it really take half a year from tape out to series production ?
> I thought that was in the 3-4 months range ?

An asic, in the "normal" compagny need a year. But a graphical design look 
really complex.

> But anyways, this leads to the next question of a project schedule.
> This isn't an OSS but a busines project, thus we should all agree
> on a somewhat tight schedule until when we want to have certain
> things finished.

FPGA could come much earlier than asic. no problem for that. And the risk is 
much lower.

> > But don't forget, the debugging that need to be done. Software model did
> > not replace engenering model.
>
> C is not VHDL/Verilog :)

And FPGA are real things. With true stupid analog effect... (A ! the actel 
fpga...)

nicO

>
>
>                       Attila Kinali

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