Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site turtlevax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!turtlevax!ken From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: "When to go to CMOS", or, "Is Schottky dead" Message-ID: <537@turtlevax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 19:33:43 EDT Article-I.D.: turtleva.537 Posted: Fri Sep 28 19:33:43 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 06:20:51 EDT Distribution: net Organization: CADLINC, Inc. @ Palo Alto, CA Lines: 20 Myriad new high-speed CMOS IC's are coming out from lots of new startups as well as some of the old fogies. AMD, Analog Devices, Cypress, Integrated Device Technology (IDT), International Microcrcuits (IMI), Lattice, Logic Devices, TRW all have LSI devices (memories, processing units), pending or available. Other companies, such as National, TI, Zytrex, RCA, have got high-speed CMOS MSI chips (registers, gates, decoders, etc.). It almost seems like it is near the time when a design may consist entirely of CMOS components. How close is high-speed CMOS to price parity with S or LS? Some of the components (MSI) are dominated by packaging costs, so should be no more than 5% more expensive than their bipolar counterparts. How about LSI components? -- Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA UUCP: {amd,decwrl,flairvax,nsc}!turtlevax!ken ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPA