[sdiy] Designing Analog ICs

[Magnus Danielson]

On 08/09/11 16:52, Dave Manley wrote:
> On 9/8/2011 7:41 AM, Dave Manley wrote:
>> 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
>
> I'll answer my own question: OnChip. They don't advertise
> the capability on their website though. There's a thread
> on AH from 2007 titled "PolyEvolver Ics (and some circuit topology
> drivel)".

Are you sure you don't mean On Semiconductors?
http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16558

Cheers,
Magnus