How to Design a New Chip on a Budget

Re:How to Design a New Chip on a Budget by anfilt on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:08PM (#16319698)

I have thought about this. I have looked at several multi-wafer services for my own projects. Mainly some interesting analog designs mixed with digital.

For instance http://cmp.imag.fr/ has a 350nm process for only 650 euros per sq mm. However, that does exclude packaging costs which is quite steep for such a low number of devices.

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Re:How to Design a New Chip on a Budget by yzhou on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:44PM (#16321058)

minimum 5.5mm^2 is required, so we are talking about 3575 euros here. Besides, it is very rare that you can get a production grade chip on the first try, bug happens all the time, you might need 2 or 3 or even more tries to get a working product.

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Re:How to Design a New Chip on a Budget by jacquesm on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:26PM (#16321279)

You might, but there are plenty of examples of first Silicon working, the trick is to spend a lot of time on getting your simulations right.

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