Hi, I'm interested in doing some experiments requiring a rather large number of Atmel At94k40 chips (or, in a pinch, At40k40), but not enough to be able to afford a board assembly run. At minimum 10 devices, perhaps up to 50 or so depending on how much it all costs.
At the moment we're looking for a reasonably cheap source of boards with the largest-size (__k40) device soldered down and access to some reasonable subset of the pins. Basically everything else is flexible.
The device itself (unsoldered) is only $50 on Digi-Key, but the only board I can find that includes this chip (the STK94) costs $500!
The STK594 (note the "5") meets all my criteria, and can be used without the STK500 motherboard. The only problem is that it uses the __k10 device which is only 25% of the size of the __k40, so we'd need four times as many boards (at least!).
Any ideas?
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