Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you should avoid at all costs?

Re:Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you shoul... by ajb on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:26PM (#33266034)

Process gates are for when you know you aren't going to get many iterations. Some things really are one shot or few shot. Example: a set of masks for a silicon chip costs millions of dollars, get it wrong and that's a million dollar coaster. Recognise when you have that problem and when you don't.

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Re:Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you shoul... by drewcoo on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @03:11PM (#33266579)

Process gates are part of repeated process. Otherwise we'd call them "special one-time checks that we absolutely won't make part of our process."

One-shot checks are a thing and have a place, but that's not what the article is about.

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Re:Why are process gates the hellish spawn of evil you shoul... by ajb on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:33PM (#33268184)

What I mean by one shot is one shot in that product. You only tape a given chip once (unless you screwed up and somehow still have the money for a redo), but you absolutely expect that you are going to tape out more than one chip if you are a chip company. So it is genuinely part of a process.

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