[sdiy] Designing Analog ICs

[Noah Vawter]

On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Joel B wrote:

> 
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:55 PM, Tom Corbitt wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
> Last time this topic came up a few years ago, it was established that production cost was about $45000 for the setup and $7 /  chip. Pretty reasonable, less than a nice new car.  

If a chip had the right stuff for me, I would invest in it!  (could we get 45 people @ $1500 apiece?)

e.g. if it was a block that could be patched into being a number of different, high-bandwidth fundamental modules, esp. with digital control :) :) :)  



Also, if anyone wants to try some milliFab experiments I would be interested :)  







> The guy who owns the fab is on this list somewhere...
> 
> - Joel
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