[sdiy] Designing Analog ICs

[Dave Manley]

On 9/7/2011 1:46 PM, ASSI wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 September 2011, Ian Smith wrote:
>> I was planning on trying www.mosis.com when the time came.
>
> Last I looked Mosis didn't have any analog bipolar processes available, so
> you'd need to do it in analog CMOS, which is possible - but you can forget
> CEM clones.  Going through Mosis or Europractise gets you chips from about
> $8k upwards depending on area and technology, but you only get very few
> chips for that, untested.  Even if you were dedicated to spend that much
> money and effort, I don't think you'd get at the software tools as an
> individual.  It is possible to just give them a GDS and have that processed,
> but you'd really need to be brave to do that (and know how to look for lots
> of things the tools would normally check for you).

Who's building Dave Smith's current CEM (PA397), most obvious choice?  It is in the archive somewhere
here or on AH.

-Dave