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Follow these simple steps to successfully complete your first custom MPD8021 design:
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DESCRIPTION
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FREE
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Download the MPD8021 Technical Bulletin and familiarize yourself with the component cabinet. Example devices are available free of charge through your local representative. These will enable you to build test breadboards or measure component performance in the laboratory. |
| FREE |
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Contact your local representative regarding how to obtain free SPICE Models. Click here for a list of representatives. |
| FREE |
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Using your favorite SPICE simulator, design the requisite circuits using the SPICE models and subcircuits available on the Internet. |
| FREE |
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Using GDSII compatible layout software, hookup your design using one metal and one feedthrough layer. You can use the example layouts available on the Internet to help speed up this process. If you do not own a layout tool, one can be purchased from several different manufacturers at a modest cost (i.e., $2,500 or less). |
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 ESD ADVISORY - Don't forget to protect your design! (Click here for tips) |
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Perform design rule checks and connectivity checks on your layout to certify you have connected your simulated schematic correctly. In conjunction with the prototyping program, Micrel provides Design Rule Checking (DRC) as a service. |
| $25,000 |
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Email your layout database to ezhelp@micrel.com along with the completed Micrel MPD8021 Order Form including your company's purchase order number. Those customers who have not established a credit account with Micrel must submit the prototyping charge with their order. |
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In less than 6 weeks, Micrel will ship 10 packaged MPD8021s in a standard 68-lead ceramic LCC package for your evaluation. Prototypes will not be tested. The package lids will not be sealed so that, if necessary, microprobing can be done to assist with troubleshooting. |
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The prototyping process can be repeated as many times as is necessary at the same low-cost $25,000 NRE, to complete your specification compliant design. |
| NRE |
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Test program will be created to your specifications after your prototype verification process - NRE quotation requires test matrix.
Click here for test details. |
