| ??? 07/15/09 19:16 Read: times |
#167362 - a market. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jan Waclawek said:
Yeah, maybe. But, then, if the micro is of the size of 4 resistors (+ the overhead on the PCB), or 8 resistors (note that said micro is available in 2 other packages, not that much bigger ones) - does that REALLY make any difference?
Isn't the battery, charger/supply, the sensor itself, display, keyboard or whatever input device, case (real leather ;-) ), connectors and stuff making up 90% of weight and/or volume? Look at it this way: Silicon Labs wouldn't introduce a part in that package if they did not see a market for it. Obviously some big customer said: "We want this package, oh, yeah, it's gotta be COTS" so SiLabs built the part and added it to the catalog (the COTS part). I mean, just because WE can't see a use for this part doesn't mean that there are no customers for it! -a |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| The itsy-bitsy micro | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| And the inevitable question is... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| How to solder this thingy?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| you can't solder these things... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: how to solder? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| like what? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Portable consumer electronics | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: toys | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| price of their toys | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK, I give in... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Anything portable | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| portable gas detector | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a market. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Constant huge need for smaller components | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
It's only 10% but... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| well... | 01/01/70 00:00 |