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jeunke22 or others ...

Can someone help me understand what the term "prototyping" means in the semiconductor world?

In my world, spacecraft, a prototype is built to the final flight design using the final tooling, processes, procedures, etc. A prototype is normally subjected to worse environments than it will see in flight so as to show that the design has margin. A prototype is never flown, though there is a variation of this approach called protoflight in which a single article is built, tested to different levels, and flown (with a higher risk posture).

So, in the semiconductor world, is such a device fabricated to final design data? Or is the final design actually teased out in the piloting phase?

thx