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It’s been shocking and exhilarating to see all of the 28nm process announcements lately. If you throw them all into a basket, you might get the idea that nothing could be simpler than throwing together a 28nm design with hundreds of millions of gates. A tag team consisting of JC Parker and Vishwas Rao set a standing-room-only audience straight about that topic at this week’s LSI 2010 Conference and Showcase. Their presentation was titled “MegaChip Design: Accelerated Closure of 100+ Million Gate Designs.” Parker is LSI’s Director of Design Implementation and Rao is a Senior Manager of Design Closure Methodology. With titles like those, and from the presentation, you can tell these two have seen their share of design challenges.

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