Re: that’s very true…

Originally posted by Vortex
there’s a lot of ‘technicians’ in fab houses, but of course many of the IC technicians are also at least college graduates or even post graduates. Anotherthing is that software and hardware is very different, you can design some cmos circuits to do some ASIC work, but that doesn’t at all mean you know how to program your remote control written by some wierd cs geek…

That is very true Vortex , towards the end of the Livingston Fabrication Plant 1’s life NEC started fabricating third party design u-com and EPROM devices , I don’t think ANYBODY knew what these were for , we just made them and shipped them – what the customer programs into EPROM’s is up to them , and away over my head !! , the small u-com IC’s were just for pocket calculators , car air-bag control circuits , PLC systems etc