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From: hillman@ucs.sfu.ca (Steve Hillman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,sci.electronics
Subject: Pricing of DIPs vs SMTs
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.024136.10349@ucs.sfu.ca>
Date: 5 Feb 91 02:41:36 GMT
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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I work for a small company and am involved in the building of a prototype
synthesizer. Since we don't have the money to go with large custom VLSI's,
most of our circuitry is off the shelf TTL circuitry. When it comes to
running off production boards, we'd like to go with SMT, as it would make
for MUCH smaller PC boards. Unfortunately, I have no information on the
differences in price between DIP packages and equivelant Surface Mount
Packages. Is there a large difference, or have the prices become quite
close, now that SMT use is almost universal? Our quantities would be quite
low - in the 100's.
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
Steve "Skillman" Hillman                "Everyone generalizes"
hillman@whistler.sfu.ca
skillman@tz.wimsey.bc.ca