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My understanding of ASIC production, is that new circuit designs are capital intensive, they require masks to be produced and machines to be configured for the
by WatchDog 6y ago
My understanding of ASIC production, is that new circuit designs are capital intensive, they require masks to be produced and machines to be configured for the given pattern.
Are older processes more automated?
Can the 130nm production line, produce many different designs without any manual intervention?
- bradstewart 6y agoMask sets will still be required for each chip (to my knowledge), but they are significantly cheaper on older processes like 130nm. The process design kit (or PDK) mentioned in the article takes care of "configuring the machiines". The PDK provides describes how to construct low-level primitives (the instruction set, if you will) for the specific fab. Designers then layer on their logic circuits using those primitives.
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