Metric · General Industry
Design cycle time
The elapsed time to take a chip from specification to tape-out, excluding fabrication and bring-up. Tracked as a productivity metric and attacked through IP reuse, platform approaches and better methodology.
- Also known as
- Design TAT
- Type
- Metric
- Domain
- General Industry, Product strategy
Notes
Rising verification effort, not RTL coding, is what has dominated design cycle time growth for the last two decades.
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