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Hello Everyone, Could anyone please shed some light on Altera's FPGA to ASIC conversion process. I am trying to find out a rough estimate of NRE cost and typical cost reduction out of it. ...
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Honored Contributoryou really should get in contact with your local Altera distributor
a high level overview, the Altera HardCopy family is a structure ASIC that is pin compatible with the high end Stratix family. normally you will start off with an FPGA on board. once the FPGA design is finalized, you work with Altera on the HardCopy conversion. in parallel, you might start shipping product with an FPGA on the board. when your HardCopy starts shipping, you can transition over to the custom chips
