Outsourcing an IC design: Some advice from the trenches
September 3, 2009
There are many reasons to consider outsourcing all or part of a chip design. Perhaps you are on a board-level-design team, and the correct approach to your new project is a chip that doesn’t today exist. Perhaps your team has previously done IC designs but lacks the skills for your next project. Maybe your organization has downsized so that only a few key individuals remain from what was once a full SOC (system-on-chip)-design team. In each of these cases, outsourcing may be the answer. In every case, however, defining the work, selecting the right vendor, and creating an adequate project-management structure are necessary conditions for success.
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