Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

--- Jon Elson <elson@...> wrote:

> Who the HELL can afford a SINGLE CHIP that costs $8000?
> Hmm, maybe the US government, but I can't imagine
> too many others.

Ever price an ASIC? Ever price a ∗mistake∗ in an ASIC?
Makes them high density FPGA's look cheap. Doing all your
ASIC protyping on a reprogrammable part takes out a lot of the
risk before your code is taped out.



Mark K5LXP
Albuquerque, NM