China on the air
FREMONT, CA. All a fabless semiconductor company needs to develop an ASIC are some workstations and EDA software, right? Not in the case of Legend Silicon, which is looking to put its ICs into the estimated 40 to 50 million digital TV sets or set-top boxes sold annually in China. EDA tools do play a key role, but so, too, does the RF instrumentation that the company uses to evaluate the algorith...

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