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You can design your prototype using hand tools or CAD tools. If you use CAD software, you can use rapid prototyping tools to fabricate the prototype. In one technology called additive manufacturing, the machine reads in data from a CAD drawing and lays down successive layers of liquid, powder, or sheet material, and in this way builds up the model from a series of cross sections. These layers, which correspond to the virtual cross section from the CAD model, are joined together or fused automatically to create the final shape. The primary advantage to additive fabrication is its ability to create almost any shape or geometric feature. Some solid freeform fabrication techniques use two materials in the course of constructing parts. The first material is the part material and the second is the support material (to support overhanging features during construction). The support material is later removed by heat or dissolved away with a solvent or water.

Traditional injection molding can be less expensive for manufacturing polymer products in high quantities, but additive fabrication can be faster and less expensive when producing relatively small quantities of parts. 3D printers give designers and concept development teams the ability to produce parts and concept models using a desktop size printer.

If you are doing electronic inventions, Tier Logic's products provides both prototyping and high volume production capabilities. The FPGA can be used during prototype phase, and upon successful engineering, the same design can be converted into high volume ASIC devices with minimal cost. TierONE™ family of devices is designed to deliver logic-rich, low-cost FPGAs (TierFPGA™ products) with the flexibility to migrate to an ASIC (TierASIC™ products) using the Design Once™ concept and Timing-Exact™ closure. The Timing-Exact feature guarantees that the design's operational timing characteristics are exactly the same in the TierFPGA and in the TierASIC devices. The Design Once methodology allows easy click-of-a-button migration from TierFPGAs to TierASICs without any additional engineering effort.

The TierONE programmable fabric was designed for greater logic efficiency, higher performance, and lower cost. Furthermore, dedicated high-speed functions such as RAMs, phase-locked loops (PLLs), multipliers, and IO blocks deliver the same features and performance available in mainstream FPGAs.