11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
5:28 p.m.
On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
Passives are not an issue. The assembly house
supplies them as
part of the assembly fee.
Ahh, an assembly house...another expense. I build my own
boards...far cheaper. But then I've not dealt with big enough
quantities for that to become a problem; the largest run I've done
was fifty units.
Even if they didn't, I'd pay them for it - I
don't want to deal
with parts that I have a hard time seeing much less handling.
FPGAs, level shifters (or more appropriately 5v tolerant LVTTL
transceivers), LVDO regulators, etc. cost $$s no matter who you buy
from (and I order from a lot of different suppliers). I also
design using readily available (ie in production) parts (the only
exception are the unibus transceivers and I go on the secondary
market for those and typically can only buy in lots of what's
available...ie if somebody has 350 parts for $7/ea, that's what I
get...yes I have a lot of $'s tied up in various inventory).
Yes, I have that problem too. :-( They sure do come in handy,
though.
Speaking of those 5V-tolerant transceivers, what's your favorite
part these days?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL