Comment by bayindirh

5 years ago

As a Turkish, I can confirm the story.

Also the same story highlights the roots of the term "Tape Out".

Since the designs of ICs were stored in the tapes at the time, you write the final design to a tape and send it out to fab, hence you Tape out the design.

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bayindirh

TeMPOraL 5 years ago

I recall from some HN story that "tape out" is an even older term, referring to the practice of putting black line tape on the (much magnified) artwork for the photomask. Wikipedia seems to confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out#History.

bayindirh 5 years ago

Thanks for the info, TIL something new.
Cheers!