Does anyone here have experience in converting a circuit to ASIC?
Yes, 45 years experience. Go to my website....
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for more information, and contact details.
Answers to you questions (below) can not be answered until your schematic and specifications can be reviewed.
>It's a fairly simple design. Nothing esoteric.
>Here are my questions:
>
>1 - Who does this? We have zero experience here, and will just farm
>it out. (We're located in the US.) A search on ThomasRegister yielded
>96 "hits", but have not done much with that list yet....
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>2 - Is there a ballpark guesstimate of what a per-piece ASIC
>equivalent might run us? For example, if our prototype (using Digikey
>onesies-twosies) ran $4.50 US including the board but ignoring labor,
>what's a reasonable ratio?
>
>3 - Finally what about ASIC development costs?
>I'm presently guessing $250K US to get it converted and then we'll buy
>units from there. (In other words, the non-recurring engineering
>costs) Does that seem a reasonable estimate to anyone??
>
>What has been your experience with similar projects?
>Thanks!!
>
>-mpm
...Jim Thompson