>The design will be implemented in a few thousands >of boards, so it must be REALLY price optimized. Do not forget to include the cost of doing the radiation characterisation in the price optimisation :) It may be that you are better to do the controller design in VHDL and put it in an FPGA with suitable fine geometry internal structures to get the radiation hardness (see my comment about 0.25 micron geometries). This should certainly be a price competitive way to go if needing to build several thousand units. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body