Traditional analog* ASIC Development is Slow
Traditional analog and mixed-signal (analog*) ASIC design is slow and expensive.
Traditional analog* ASIC design involves laying out individual circuits by hand. Traditional IC designers draw individual circuit elements by placing polygons. The basic building blocks of all analog* ASICs include resistors, capacitors, and transistors. In a traditional analog* ASIC design, designers make each of these elements by hand.
A complete analog* ASIC is the manual arranging of hundreds or thousands of such components. The initial assembly of a traditional ASIC is slow. Making changes to the design is a slow and error prone process.
Traditional analog* ASICs often take two or more years to complete. Two years is too long for most projects to wait on the development of a custom IC.
Traditional analog* ASIC design involves laying out individual circuits by hand. Traditional IC designers draw individual circuit elements by placing polygons. The basic building blocks of all analog* ASICs include resistors, capacitors, and transistors. In a traditional analog* ASIC design, designers make each of these elements by hand.
A complete analog* ASIC is the manual arranging of hundreds or thousands of such components. The initial assembly of a traditional ASIC is slow. Making changes to the design is a slow and error prone process.
Traditional analog* ASICs often take two or more years to complete. Two years is too long for most projects to wait on the development of a custom IC.
Traditional analog* ASIC Development is Expensive
Traditional analog* IC designers train many years to become skilled artisans in their craft.
Skilled traditional Analog* IC designers are an expensive and scarce resource. This scarcity tends to make traditional analog* ASIC design both slow and expensive. Few markets can tolerate a two ASIC development cycle. This unfortunate reality means that many projects forgo the ASIC option. Instead, many projects use sub-optimal discrete component implementations. A PCB full of discrete components lacks that size, power, and cost savings that an ASIC could achieve. This approach hinders the competitiveness of such products in today's competitive markets. This scarcity tends to make traditional analog* ASIC design both slow and expensive. |
Traditional analog* IC designers are often referred to as artists.
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