[aprssig] MOSIS design experience

[Rich Osman]

Cheap, works well, lasts a long time.

http://www.mosis.org/

What you get are a few untested, packaged chips.  The way this works is 
they do
a wafer with a few hundred (or thousand) projects on it and everyone 
shares the
cost. You pay for silicon (cheap,) Packaging (not as cheap,) and your share of
the NRE for the combined mask (big cost, but shared by many.)

Thus spake "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Robert Bruninga wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine is looking for someone with
>> MOSIS design experience.  Apparently this is
>> an outfit in Calif that will produce chips for
>> school projects very cheaply.  Using their
>> software, you layout the chip and for under
>> $100 bucks you get a custom chip?
>>
>> Sounds amazing to me... anyone?
>
> VLSI-1 and VLSI-2 design class for my degree back in the 80's.  We
> used MOSIS and some grants, designing some custom bit-slice
> microprocessors.  I think it was more like $50,000 back then, but I
> could be wrong.  I think we had five teams in our class and each
> team designed a chip.  They worked as we designed them.  Pretty cool
> stuff.  Ours were ceramic 64-pin DIP's.
>
> I could point you to the professor at my school that taught that
> class.  If he's still there.
>
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