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Understanding the Real Cost of Prototyping Hardware

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June 2009
 

Doug Amos
Synopsys

This white paper exposes the most significant factors to consider when choosing to develop or purchase prototyping hardware. Costs, development time, and effort are considered in detail; including the obvious direct factors of Bill-of-Materials (BoM) cost, manufacturing time and test yield as well as some related business issues, such as engineering opportunity cost, and even tax efficiency.

 
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