That's still not out of the ballpark. If you are building something that you want to operate 20Y+ in a space environment, you develop on ordinary ICs and build one flight unit with the RadHard version.
On Sep 16, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Assi Friedman wrote:
It's more like $5k for the 600k gate device, and $10k for the 3,000k gate device. We should all expect a bulletin from Actel soon stating that the commercial ProASIC3 devices are *bad* for space use ;-) Assi
-----Original Message----- From: eagle-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:eagle-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of John B. Stephensen Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:02 PM To: Lyle Johnson; k3io@verizon.net Cc: 'EAGLE' Subject: [eagle] Re: Flash-Based Rad-Tolerant FPGAs
Samples of rad-hard PLLs from Peregrine are $500 each so small rad- hard FPGAs must be several thousand dollars each.
73
John KD6OZH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lyle Johnson" kk7p@wavecable.com To: k3io@verizon.net Cc: "'EAGLE'" eagle@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 18:21 UTC Subject: [eagle] Re: Flash-Based Rad-Tolerant FPGAs
Good News! Any idea of the price for the price for flight-quality parts? I'm about to unveil my latest (for EAGLE@GEO) payload idea and
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