Building your own response chip, What equipment is needed? Options

[Eleazar]

The book actually says you are actually building your own chip based upon the parts purchased for whatever rating is desired. The chart in SR4 page 240 states it is a response chip that is being created. Wouldn't this then require some sort of Fabrication plant or a modern 2070 microfactory. I am guessing the parts purchased are a wafer with the chemicals and metals required to create your very own chip. This is a rather highly sophisticated process that takes a team of engineers. So, what is needed to create your own response chip. I am guessing what ever is needed would also be applied to sim modules and wireless radio device.

[Nasrudith]

Probably an electronics shop, maybe an electronics facillity according to the rules. Personally I'd lean towards the electronics shop over the facility.

[Strobe]

I was always under the impression that the chips were self writing so to speak. Since the processing power and storage are the same unit you buy a blank and then use some other software to make the chip into whatever chip you had designed.

-Strobe

[Jaid]

if you look at it, there are only two stats for the hardware of any given device:

1) signal. this is pretty straightforward... it's the strength of your wireless signal. basically a radio.

2) response. since there are precisely 0 other stats, this is everything that hardware determines, *except* for the wireless stuff.

so, in other words, what is a response chip? it's a computer. you would need everything that a computer would need, because when it all comes down to it, the response chip is actually a computer. it's not a CPU, it's not a motherboard, it's not a hard drive, it's not your RAM, etc... it's everything put together.

[cetiah]

I assume this is a relatively simple process, requiring only a Hardware test. The "requiring parts" limit is just fluff to make sure the GM has a way out if player's start abusing this. I don't think it would require a fabrication facility, so much as it just needs a few tools. It's like the difference between making a car on the assembly line and just fixing one up yourself.

I don't think you could build it from scratch, using just base metals and chemicals and such, but I think you can take common electrical components and make them into a chip, or take an existing chip and make it function better.

[Eleazar]