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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (11270)	5/7/1999 8:02:00 AM
From: gbh	Respond to of 18016

I'm afraid I don't know to much about it, other than if things go wrong you're usually the last to find out, and then you yell a lot at your vendor! :-) Unfortunately, this is true. In fact, its usually a user who informs the chip vendor that the chip has a bug. At that point, it can sometimes take some time for the info to filter out to other users. This is a working fact of life for all bleeding edge semiconductors. Seriously, I doubt very much Newbridge (or anyone else) does much testing on individual ASICs as they come in. It's assumed the manufacturer tested them adequately before they shipped them to you. If its a NN designed ASIC, then NN has supplied the the test vector set to the ASIC vendor, which is run on every device. But you are correct that the assumption is that what comes in is tested (not necessarily bug-free though). Gary