c. Consider a company that is developing a product that will use a VLSI design. Your choices for implementation are Custom, Std-Cell, Gate- Array, or FPGA. Your company is planning on shipping this product in 24 months regardless of the development time (that is, they won't ship early if it's done early...) Your marketing department thinks that you will sell 5000 units per month, and that the product lifecycle is 5 years (starting after the 24 months of development.). You are given the following costs. NRE is non-recurring engineering and involves the set-up costs associated with a chip technology (design, masks, etc.) (see the Summary of Chapter 1 in your text) NRE Engineering Custom chip $500k 4 engineers, 24 months, $15k/engr/month Std Cell chip $300k4 engineers, 18 months, $15k/engr/month Gate Arra FPGA Per-Piece cost $4 $6 $14 $25 S200k3 engineers, 12 months, $12klengr/month $0 2 engineers, 9 months, $10k engr/month i. Given these costs, plot the cost for the product over time for the 84 month life of the product (24 months before release, and 60 month product life cycle) ii. Where do each of the technologies become the most cost- effective version of the product? c. Consider a company that is developing a product that will use a VLSI design. Your choices for implementation are Custom, Std-Cell, Gate- Array, or FPGA. Your company is planning on shipping this product in 24 months regardless of the development time (that is, they won't ship early if it's done early...) Your marketing department thinks that you will sell 5000 units per month, and that the product lifecycle is 5 years (starting after the 24 months of development.). You are given the following costs. NRE is non-recurring engineering and involves the set-up costs associated with a chip technology (design, masks, etc.) (see the Summary of Chapter 1 in your text) NRE Engineering Custom chip $500k 4 engineers, 24 months, $15k/engr/month Std Cell chip $300k4 engineers, 18 months, $15k/engr/month Gate Arra FPGA Per-Piece cost $4 $6 $14 $25 S200k3 engineers, 12 months, $12klengr/month $0 2 engineers, 9 months, $10k engr/month i. Given these costs, plot the cost for the product over time for the 84 month life of the product (24 months before release, and 60 month product life cycle) ii. Where do each of the technologies become the most cost- effective version of the product