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5. Tying the System Together

Corey Richard1  
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San Francisco, CA, USA
 

Millions of dollars and a year of our design team’s hard work has been spent, but it was well worth it! The fab has finished and shipped your order – 100,000 freshly minted custom processors are on the way. What now? If you’re reading this on a kindle or a laptop, you may have noticed that a screen is in front of you, not a die-package assembly. The truth of the matter is that a well-designed IC is only as good as the system it’s a part of. As Moore’s Law slows down and companies lean more heavily on functional ...

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