Changeset 38 for anr/section-2.1.tex

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Jan 19, 2010, 11:01:35 AM (14 years ago)

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-Microelectronic allows the integration of complicated functions into products, to increase their
-commercial attractivity and to improve their competitivity. Multimedia and communication
-sectors have taken advantage from microelectronics facilities thanks to the developpment of
-design methodologies and tools for real time embedded systems. Many other sectors could
-benefit from microelectronics if these methologies and tools were adapted to their features.
-The Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs involded in designing and manufacturing an ASIC is 
-very high. An IC foundry costs several billions of euros and the fabrication
-of a specific circuit costs several millions. For example a conservative estimate for a 65nm ASIC project is 10 million USD. 
+Microelectronic allows the integration of complicated functions into products, increases
+commercial attractivity of these products and improves their competitivity.
+Multimedia and communication sectors have taken advantage from microelectronics facilities
+thanks to the developpment of design methodologies and tools for real time embedded
+systems.
+Many other sectors could benefit from microelectronics if these methologies and tools were
+adapted to their features. The Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs involded in designing
+and manufacturing an ASIC is very high.
+An IC foundry costs several billions of euros and the fabrication of a specific circuit
+costs several millions. For example a conservative estimate for a 65nm ASIC project is 10
+million USD.
 Consequently, it is generally unfeasible to design and fabricate ASICs in
 low volumes and ICs are designed to cover a broad applications spectrum at the cost of
-performance degradation.
+some performance degradation.
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 Today, FPGAs become important actors in the computational domain that was originally dominated