[sdiy] Designing Analog ICs

[Tom Corbitt]

For a real custom IC, you're off by an order of magnitude, 100's of
thousands would be required Even If you're going with a place like
xfab (meaning you're willing to roll your design with their prefab
parts) you're talking min 50k plus a wafer. Say maybe 200 to 500 parts
yield per wafer just for the die, then add on the wirebonding and
packaging, and $500 a part

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Joel B <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Presumably you already have the tens of thousands of dollars and you now just need to brush up on the knowledge? ;-)
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> That is what KickStarter is for!
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> given the success of the Rockit 8bit Synth kickstarter project, hopefully someone on the list will start a Kickstarter project to re-release all those Curtis chips in quantity, or at least some really good clones, and get the Analog Synth industry out of the "scavenging for chips" mode.
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