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From: hillman@newsserver.sfu.ca (Steve Hillman)
Newsgroups: comp.lsi
Subject: Cost of VLSI production?
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.162332.17985@newsserver.sfu.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:23:32 GMT
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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We are a small startup company who are developing a high end synthesizer.
Currently, our design calls for roughly 150 small- and medium-scale TTL
chips, as well as a handful of large-scale chips (specificly 16x16 Multiply
Accumulators). 
 
We are interested in condensing our boards into a few (maybe 3 or 4) VLSI
chips, each having an equivelant complexity of roughly 50 MSI TTL chips.
Is this feasible for a small company? What would be our minimum order? How
much would design and production cost us?
 
Any info would be greatly appreciated.


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


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