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Honored ContributorA lot of the time the field office personal are out visting customers, so that may be the reason you are only getting voice mail.
You can also try going to Arrow, they are an Altera distributor, and I know they have ASIC design services specifically for hardcopy. If you are currently using Altera FPGA's your current supplier of the FPGA's should be able to set up a business meeting to discuss your hardcopy requirements. The closest Arrow I could find near Washington DC is: Arrow North American Components - Philadelphia 355 Business Center Drive Horsham, PA 19044 Phone#: (215) 956-4800 Fax#: (215) 675-9875 My previous experience with hardcopy, is it's very similar to a standard ASIC flow, in that it's not a "one button" push from the FPGA flow to the ASIC, but that there are differences between the FPGA and ASIC that still have to be resolved. Altera/Arrow worked with us through those differences, and from what I understand, this is easier or more difficult depending on the exact FPGA to Hardcopy flow you are running. (Our issue was with a PLL in the Hardcopy that had a "Dead" spot for a certain input frequency that worked on the FPGA PLL, that we had to work around. But it was identified by Altera before silicon, so the work around worked with no problems.) Pete P.S. I do not work for either Altera or Arrow. I'm a FPGA/ASIC consultant.
