Tape-out

In electronics, tape-out is the name of the final stage of the design of an integrated circuit such as a microprocessor; the point at which the description of a circuit is sent for manufacture. The term refers to the writing of the magnetic tape with the final data file describing the circuit layout and other details. The term is still used even though magnetic tapes are now rarely used for this process. In the computer graphics industry, tape-out refers to the process of transferring video from digital files stored on computer to video tape.

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