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To: Tony Viola who wrote (56554)	6/2/1998 2:18:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) of 186894

Tony - Re: Merced Delay So far, one area that keeps getting mentioned as a contributing "cause " for the delay are the CAD (Computer Aided Design) TOOLS used to design, simulate, and verify the design as well as perform physical layout of the circuitry. Intel uses a wide variety of these tools and many are developed in house - as opposed to relying 100% on outside CAD tool vendors. Some of these tools had to be developed concurrently during the project development, creating subsidiary programs that had to be managed, engineered, etc. The Merced is being designed on a "deep" sub-micron process, transistor count is in the neighborhood of 18 or 20 million transistors and a few of the CAD tools required to handle this complexity didn't keep pace with the overall project. Indications are (not 100% confirmed) that some of these tools weren't completed on time or at least weren't up to the job, necessitating further development of the specific CAD tools before certain Merced design/verification/simualtion functions could be completed. This is what I have been able to ascertain at this point. Paul

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