Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by madengr on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:32AM
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I thought most EDA companies put a stop to that with geographic licensing restrictions.
Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by baybal2 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:42AM
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And this is the reason some companies have shift work...
But that all means nothing for companies who buy Virtuoso copies from from guys trading WaReZ in pedestrian underpasses in BJ.
A number of quite reputable SoC brands here in the PRD are known to be based on 100% pirated EDAs.
This is not a critique, but a call to think about that a bit.
In China, you can spin-up a microelectronics startup in under $1m, in USA, you will spend $1m to just buy a minimal EDA toolchain for the business.
Allwinner famously started with just $1m in capital, when disgruntled engineers from Actions decided to start their own business.
Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @09:45AM
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What is PRD? I’m guessing a country acronym?
It's actually a big part of why some silicon companies distribute themselves around timezones - so someone in Texas can fire up the software immediately when someone in the UK finishes work.
It's not unusual to see an 'all engineering' email reminding to you close rather than minimize the software when you go to meetings.