Savannah Miller wrote:A sensor with identical specs to the 4.6K sensor is now on the market which makes me believe the company that designed the sensor is now selling the sensor (or at least some form of it) to make their money back a little bit. Probably similar to the deal you were offered. How expensive generally is it to design a sensor and how do you know what to expect as far as DR and low light performance?
Sorry for the delay. I don't know nies days. I think one quote somebody I knew was a quarter a million to get his color filter array designed.
My chip application was for leading edge processor technology. But the companies designs were not good enough for me. My enhanced technologies and designs would have added to it.
To get an idea of sensor performance, you do test samples of the circuites to measure the performance of the design. So, you would make a sensor pad, and sensor sub circuited, book in for a test sample with others companies samples on the same due to save money. Maybe for $10k-$50k a pop, and keep going back refining the design formular and testing bigger circuites until you get it done. But it can be 6 weeks before you get a test circuite back. Do you might be testing hundreds of circuites, hundreds of copies, and even hundreds of versions of a pad. While you wait for.thst you maybe working on more things to test next. When you get the original lot back you can test the and make new versions while other test circuites get made. But as this is she sensor technology, unless you are using an previously made process, it would get more complicated, as the physical chemical formula of the chip has to also be tested, meaning that a shared wafer likely can only test one formular at a time, but I imagine they have ways around this. They could do test stripes of different formulas separatation from the circuites at first, but this is out of my league. But for this reason it is likely that the sensor manufacture has its own custom sensor fab to test things, which probably reduces time and may decease costs. Red has a few.
I lost the previouse post I was writing, but did I mention it was said they put in $10 million into this design? So, what is for sale could be another version of it, which they might even get a cut on.