We are interested in the possibility of implementing
the 500 MHz digitizer using rad-hard, deep submicron
(0.25 um) technology.  If there is currently nobody
working on the project, we can help!

   Here is my rough guess of what it takes to
develop such a chip over a period of two years:

* 1 engineering run, $100K (you probably get all the chips you need)
* 3-4 prototype submissions, $3-5K/submission
* chip design license, $6K/year
* 1/4 engineer time/year
* 1/4 technician time for testing/year
* $10K of M&S/year
* travel to SLAC twice a year for progress review
* need for irradiation?

I think an university probably can do all these much cheaper than a national
lab and the professor supervises the project for free, freeing up resource
at national lab.