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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: "When to go to CMOS", or, "Is Schottky dead"
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Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 19:33:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 28 19:33:43 1984
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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
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