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From: Redant Steven<redant@i...>
Date: Fri Feb 6 13:26:17 CET 2004
Subject: [oc] SoC Builder
Dear Bill,
>These services are wonderful. The chip they make are great for
>prototypes, but too expensive for production. I checked the published
>prices on the Mosis web site, and for their most advanced silicon, it
>comes out to over $1,000 US dollars per part, and the part is untested.
That depends on how many chips you want. You can go for small volumes (definition being: any volume the foundry doesn't want to give to you) too.
This can be up to a million pieces of a rather small chip e.g.
Hence there are some extra questions:
What technology have you calculated with? How many parts? Only a protoype run that gives you a very limited amount of parts?
> I think for the average guy out there who just whats to make a million
>dollars, ASICs are no longer affordable. I want to change that.
Well, that depends. It's not necessary to use the most advanced technologies to make an application that will make you a million bucks. If you stay in the 'bigger' technologies ASICS are very affordable still. If you want to use e.g. .13 it's another story.
Testing setup (SW/HW) cost is also amortized over the amount of chips you want to make.
I would be very pleased to hear about novel ideas to get the cost of ASICs down for smaller volumes!
Steven
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