Quote from: Ytterbium on August 18, 2013, 02:05:45 AM

Quote from: HashFast on August 18, 2013, 01:59:23 AM

Quote from: AussieHash on August 18, 2013, 01:42:18 AM

How confident of shipping to customers are you if you have not taped out yet.

Very confident.

We are currently conducting a mock tapeout, and have already sent our GDS-II to the fab.

We are very very close to final tapeout.

-John

What does that mean? I thought "tapeout" just meant sending files to the fab. What actually happens in a "mock tapeout"? Do they just check for problems or something?

I don't doubt that you'll get your chip on time... I'm just curious about what the actual process entails.

Im not an engineer, and Simon might have to weight in here, but during a 'mock tapeout', we send files over to the fab, and they run some verifications against them.

-John