Re: Curve tracers

"Glenn Gundlach" <stratus46@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As for tracers for the PC,
how many folks use individual transistors?

1) Anyone doing a design where ICs to perform the function don't exist --
and the volume involved doesn't justify making one (at least where I work,
this happens *all the time*... I imagine it does for folks like Win as
well...)
2) Folks like Joerg who realize that many a quarter IC can be replaced with
a five cent discrete circuit.
3) Those doing high-power designs where discrete devices still dominate.

I would imagine the IC guys do their "curve tracing" using a handful of FETs
(or whatever) on a test die being probed by something like a Cascade
Microtech probe station, a network analyzer, and fancy modeling software...
at that level everything is huge and expensive anyway.


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