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To: Elmer who wrote (147332)	11/11/2001 2:09:38 AM
From: muzosi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

an ASIC vendor i think you're confusing the term ASIC vendor with the term foundry. an ASIC vendor is someone who takes your (usually rtl) netlist and gives you dice or tested, packaged parts. that's a methodology which uses a commercial standard cell library which is usually optimized for very high yield and not particularly speed. if you take the characterized spice libraries from a foundry (or better yet, run some wafers and do your own characterization) and do a device level implementation, that's called a full-custom methodology and that can be optimized for speed very efficiently. this is what mixed-signal guys use all the time. a full-custom methodology is certainly not as efficient as tuning your own process but it is much much better than an asic methodology.