IC budgeting tool
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 8/1/2005
An economic analysis engine upgrades the InCyte chip estimation tool, enabling designers and architects to transform a high-level design specification into a complete IC budgetary quotation, determining final chip cost long before committing engineering resources for implementation. Free for downloading in a time-unlimited version, InCyte's economic analysis engine takes into account such economic dimensions as: yielded silicon die cost; IC package recommendation and cost; test and assembly costs; NRE costs, including masks, engineering, tools, and IP; and ROI analysis on IP and NRE investments. Giga Scale Integration, www.chipestimate.com.
