Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!oliveb!orc!inews!mipos2!mhoeffli From: mhoeffli@mipos2.intel.com (Michael Hoefflinger) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ATTENTION all digital CHIP DESIGNERS : Help Requested Summary: the real world Keywords: vlsi data control company procedures design team Message-ID: <2251@inews.intel.com> Date: 8 Jun 90 19:42:15 GMT References: <1569@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> <499@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Reply-To: mhoeffli@mipos2.intel.com (Michael Hoefflinger) Followup-To: comp.arch Organization: Microprocessor Component Group, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 27 In article <499@dg.dg.com> uunet!dg!lewine (Don Lewine) writes: >In article <1569@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> md89mch@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Martin Howe) writes: >> >>What I'm actually asking of you all is how true a picture of the actual >>real-world VLSI design process is this ? I don't expect everyone to come >>rushing out with any company secrets of course, but surely there must be >>a comon denominator. >> > The problem with all of these course projects is that they are much > smaller than the real-world design problems. Many real-world chips > have several designers who work for years. > > There are interesting problems when you have lots of CAD data and > several people working that you will never see. > Quite true. The 80586 design team has nearly 50 members... ======== cat flames.txt > /dev/null/ ========================================= _ _ _ | Doing the right thing and ' ) ) ) / mhoeffli@mipos2.intel.com | doing things right - Kawasaki / / / o /_ _ INTEL, Santa Clara, CA | Grace Under Pressure - Hemingway / ' (_<_/ <_ =========================================