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What is tape out?

• urmish 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out When a chip design is stable enough for manufacturing them. But chips usually have post si bugs and so the tape out is usually a back and forth process depending on how complex thechip is and how competent the design team was.
• PaulHoule 8y ago
  When the plans are ready to send to the foundry.
• psds2 8y ago
  Tapeout refers to when the photomask is done, basically when you have completed the design, rendered it graphically and are ready to send to fabrication. tldr this article is basically saying the 10nm is so screwed up they can't just adjust a few things, they need to fix a lot and the more changes you start having to make the more verification that needs to be done before things are signed off and ready for tapeout.
• deleted 8y ago
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