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To: jim kelley who wrote (22083)	11/19/1997 12:14:00 PM
From: Paul Merriwether	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

<<Meathead, ASIC design is viewed as purely digital by many designers. One does not need even a college engineering degree to do ASIC design. I have known several ASIC designers who were truly ignorant of electrical design and had no degree in engineering. They did however have a capacity for working 60 and 80 hour weeks. >> Jim So tell me which companies hire ITT technicians for ASIC design. What makes you think ASIC design is constrained to be "purely digital"?(that's about the silliest generalization I have ever heard!. While an ASIC CAN be digital, it does not have to be and most real life ASICs are NOT). The timing analysis, electrical characteristics analysis, regression/simulation under thermal variations, process parameters characterization etc. is not quite as trivial as you think. Maybe you don't know the difference between a PAL and an ASIC? Or maybe you are "joking" again(weren't you the guy who thought that "NCs w/o servers" were a neat idea). And some of us waste their lives away in school while they coulda been HOT ASIC designors with a highschool diploma!(NOT!).