[sdiy] MN3207 and MN3102 Reissues

[harrybissell]

Remember, engineers do not buy companies... BEAN COUNTERS do. Often the IP
is totally lost
on the blind.  They purchase based on P/L statements and probably have no
clue as to what a
mask even IS (something you will wear this Sunday, perhaps ?)  ;^P

They also know that a certain small number of customers account for almost
all their business.
You are expendable, sorry...

H^) harry   (the bitter bitter one...)

Metrophage wrote:

> This reminds me of some very funny conversations I had a few years ago
> with some people at Analog Devices! I asked them whether or not they
> acquired all of the properties of Precision Monolithics way back when
> that purchase happened. They said "yes", they bought everything. So
> next I mention that if they acquired everything, that that would
> include the SSM2040 - they'd likely have masks for it somewhere! The
> folks I was talking with sounded weird... they said "but we never
> produced any of those ICs, that was PMI". So I say "if you bought all
> of what was PMI, then that would include even PMI properties which ADI
> never produced, yes? Such as perhaps the SSM2040". This got me lots of
> "hmmm...." I figure that ADI does own the 2040 technology, but whether
> or not they have any idea about masks might be another matter. Still,
> others there might be more knowledgable about this.
>
> CJ
>
> --- "Cornutt, David K" <david.k.cornutt at boeing.com> wrote:
> > 2.  Getting the masks.  First, you have to get the rights
> > from the design copyright holder.  The Intels and Nationals
> > of the world still hold rights to lots of things that are
> > out of production, and for some reason they often don't
> > seem to be very interested in licensing even though it
> > would be essentially free money for them.  Then there's
> > the practical problem of actually getting the masks in
> > a CAD format that is compatible.  This gets to be a problem
> > if you are going back further than about 1985, and it's
> > really a problem for pre-1975 parts that were all hand drawn.
>
>
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