| ??? 11/24/06 15:18 Read: times |
#128489 - Mega-units Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Altera and Xilinx tools are paid for when you purchase silicon. If your design sells 100 units per year, you aren't going to be paying much. If you are selling a million units, your silicon costs are going to be huge, and a tool that squeezes a few percent more out of the silicon may be justifyable.
Interestingly one of the high end VHDL synthesiser companies admitted that a big problem was companies squeezing performance out of silicon through manual optimisation. For £100,000 they get a lot of engineering effort in a low wage economy. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Megabucks EDA tools or free ones for HDL? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Makes sense | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| balance | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| well cadence were crying into their beer last wek | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What if it happened to you? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not happy, but shedding no tears either. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's the plague of the megacorporation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| well we pay £103,000 per seat per year | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| do what? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Mega-units | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Boo-hoo :-( | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| They want their cut | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Weve come to an arrangement. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nice one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: arrangement | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
They wont sue, same as banks | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| FPGA EDA tools | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's not a perfect world ... | 01/01/70 00:00 |