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| | ASIC prototyping: make versus buy - 11/21/2005 - EDN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-03) |
 | | Mike Dini, president of The Dini Group ASIC-prototyping company, strongly suggests that it is cheaper to buy a fast prototype than to build one from scratch. |
 | | Dini 10 years ago was an ASIC- and FPGA-design consultant, and, because he needed verification tools, he started building prototyping boards. |
 | | Dini and others say that, even with automated partition software from companies such as Synplicity and Synopsys, building a system on your own with more than three FPGAs can quickly become a nightmare, especially if you are unfamiliar with pc-board design, which, despite what EDA vendors claim, is still a tough task. |
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