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Is Hardcopy ASIC or Structured-ASIC?

Altera_Forum
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‎11-07-2010 07:47 AM
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Hello, 

Is Altera's hardcopy a Structured-ASIC or simply an ASIC?  

 

Although few research articles (in different conferences) by Altera talk about FPGA to Structured-ASIC conversion. However, altera's website calls Hardcopy simply an ASIC. Is it some marketing strategy, or is there some delicate technical difference? 

 

-Husain
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Altera_Forum
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‎11-08-2010 05:04 AM
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It's structured ASIC. You can control only the top metal layers when migrate to ASIC.

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Altera_Forum
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‎11-09-2010 04:24 AM
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Thank you for the reply...

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