Well the major bottleneck in the market. We can't afford to do an R&D alone. At my company we are fabricating our own RF circuits (PCBs, Not RF ICs) but digital / mixed signal ASICs are just toooo expensive. Telecom industry in Pakistan can be one market sector that can justify the volume production but to achieve the quality level of Alcatel / NSN will be a monumental task. However, FPGAs have successfully been used in 3G / 4G base stations thereby avoiding expensive ASIC R&D. I am not sure what other components in these base stations will inhibit there manufacturing in Pakistan.
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Muhammad Ali Akhtar
Muhammad Ali Akhtar
Design Engineer
RWR. Pvt Ltd.
House # 219-A Street # 7,
I 9/2 Industrial Area,
Islamabad
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Asif Mufti <anmufti@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello Junaid,Issue is not designer (chip) as you said there are plenty of them. The key point here in Pakistan is that there is little to no facility to fabricate - ASIC chip and I am not talking about board design. You can have plenty of theoreticians and no experimentalist, under the circumstances country will achieve very little.There are several different paths including fabless manufacturing but still the first article for proof of concept and design refinement needs to be carried out before sending it of for fabrication.If anyone thinks otherwise and there are micro-fabrication facility ....please let me knowRegardsAMSent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:17 PM
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Such projects can be undertaken easily in Pakistan, given the chip design expertise available locally. When I conducted FPGA design workshop in Rawalpindi several years ago, I found some people very well grounded in chip design. I also visited a few private companies in Islamabad who were designing PCB's for some of their projects.JunaidOn Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:29 AM, ahmad waqas <aws_72@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:52 PM
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