On Nov 23, 2:06*pm, Telamon
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On Nov 23, 7:18*am, Rfburns wrote:
On Nov 23, 3:45 am, wrote:

On Nov 22, 7:27 pm, Telamon

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*Rfburns wrote:
On Nov 22, 7:07 pm, wrote:
On Nov 22, 4:41 pm, Telamon

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The last time I looked a few months ago there was still no news
of HD
integrated chips on the web sites of the semiconductor
manufactures that
made press releases to that effect. All I can find are press
releases
that claim future development. I can not find any progress on
those
developments so as far as I know they are all vaporware.

No new HD integrated chips = no new low power designed radios.

If anyone has a link to samples, actual production, or data
sheets of HD
integrated chips please post a link to them.

SiPort SP1010
chiphttp://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210102036

But, it looks like the electric chair for Mr.
RFBurns:http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11027673

I understand that SiPort test engineer Jing Hua Wu flipped out when
told to work on HD radio chips. *To quote him - "HD radio is junk
technology. *It's a worthless endeavor and I won't do it." *The he
got
a gun and the rest is history.

Can't blame him for not wanting to do it myself.

The news links you are posting are secure. I can't get to it.

The short story is a test engineer at SiPort killed 3 other employees:
CEO, operations manager, and HR. The reality is the project can go
forward without these people. No flames please. I know the chip
business. This doesn't kill the project presuming the money still
flows.

I worked in one chip company where a designer got hit by a car and
pretty much that killed the design due to temporary amnesia. He
recovered nicely though.

None of this matters as HD radio is dead anyway. *Thank God.

Oh, HD is crappy technology for sure. However, they can still deliver
the new chipset. [Silicon Valley is full of "living dead" companies
and technologies. People throw good money after bad in an attempt to
save the initial investment. Venture Capitalists don't understand
technology. They just throw darts. Of course, the one good dart pays
for all the crap they finance and then some.]

It's a shame the radio biz doesn't spend more time on content creation
rather than useless technology. Actually, useless is to kind to
describe HD since it screws up conventional radio bandwidth. HD is
harmful technology.

Well unless someone went around and erased all the hard drives the
design is still around. TSMC must still have the masks so the design can
still be produced for whomever ends up owning it.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

This is supposed to be some new low power design, not the current
technology.

You really need the schematics to keep the product alive. Most chips
get tweaks during their lifetime. The mask shop doesn't necessarily
get the layout data. What you send to the mask shop goes through
considerable processing. Polygons are reduced by detecting overlapping
shapes. The layer itself gets sized to compensate for the process.

In any event, the people needed to produce the product (design and
test) are still there.