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And now flipping through the pictures of the internals - I ended up working for LSI Logic in the early 2000's, so it's fun to see all these LSI chips although t
by mattbillenstein 2y ago
And now flipping through the pictures of the internals - I ended up working for LSI Logic in the early 2000's, so it's fun to see all these LSI chips although they were before my time. Certainly some of my older colleagues worked on these.
You'll notice the numbers on these L1Axxxx - this is an internal LSI number, after they ran out of numbers for the xxxx part they bumped it to L2Axxxx and I worked on a few chips with those designations.
- kev009 2y agoThese are probably all semi-custom standard cell, which LSI was known for, no?
- mattbillenstein 2y agoYeah, LSI had their own standard cell libraries up to around 180nm, then they didn't want to invest in fabs and started working with TSMC - beginning of the end for them really. I signed off a couple chips on both sides of that transition. I worked in a group that did physical design, timing closure, test insertion, etc. I did a lot of layout automation in Avanti's tools; sometime after I left, it all went to Cadence I believe.