On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Vasile Surducan wrote: > > On 3/1/08, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > The analog process is different from the digital process. You can not > > develop many good analog parts using smaller geometry. Microchip is > > typically using 0.25-0.5 Micron technology for their MCUs. You need > > 0.6Micron, 1Micron or bigger geometry to produce many good analog parts. > > I'm not sure if the afirmation about technology is completely true, > but in my opinion the Microchip analog parts have characteristics > slighty below (on some parts claiming equaly with) the competitors. > It rising up only because prices. > For example a lot of OA produced by Microchip may have a larger offset > interval than the same lot tested from NS or TI. > What I hear from guys from ADI/Maxim/TI/LT/NS are that these parameters are quite related to the process. Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist