Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> This is the part I don't get. Mounting more chips on a board costs 
> money, but making an ASIC costs orders of magnitude *more* money.

It really doesn't. When I was in college, the guys learning how to do this 
had runs of 10 chips at a time at a fab to test out their designs. It's 
really not as expensive as you think.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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