Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

[spokeshave]

bobide1$$$: I think you are incorrect.

"My impression is that this testing is "just" an inhouse lab test according the specs of a telco.(simulation test)"

I read the minutes very carefully. The prototype FPGA-based device is considered by Greaves to be a "simulation" of the final ASIC device. In other words, the prototype "simulates" the final design, while allowing on-the-fly modifications. My understanding is that the prototype will be used in a true field application test - not an in-house simulation (different meaning of simulation).

In other words, the meaning of "simulation" is that the prototype is simulating the final product. It is not meant that the test environment is being simulated. This is my opinion, but I am fairly certain of it.