I can't really say, but together it might have paid for quite a lot of Hugo's NSX. The clients, both of them, were pretty serious about it.

To give an idea of the complexity, the video board has a component count of 516 individual parts, on a double-sided 8-layer PCB of about 7.75 square inches (credit card is about 7.5 square inches), including an arm7500, 4MB of ram, 1MB of flash, and took about 10 months to get to a final PCB. Almost all of the passive components are 0402 size, due to the packing density being so high. To put that into perspective, the majority of passives in the empeg are 0805, which are 2mm long by 1.25mm wide. 0402 parts are 1mm x 0.5mm, and a little fiddly to solder by hand. It takes me about 20 hours work to build one of these boards by hand.

That client was REALLY serious.

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