4 Feb
2009
4 Feb
'09
12:26 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
So true. At Cisco our lab stock used to be Fry's, but when they went
consumer
it is now DigiKey for odds and ends (or else I raid my own stockroom at
home).
Very little 'benchtop' prototyping is done any more anyway. It is all
breadboarded
thru simulation until we build the final boards. Most of the circuit
design we do
can't be breadboarded anyway. It just would not work.
My 2c.
Don
Until the boss
sees that you screwed around in the lab for an hour or
two getting all the parts and building the test circuit
I doubt any company newer than 10 years old even has lab stock any more
to breadboard something with.
I'd end up going to Haltek or Halted for parts, because Apple killed off
their parts stock room when the hardware group was moving from Valley
Green to
Infinite Loop. One day I went over to it and it was empty. They had
dumped
the whole thing into recycling because none of the hardware engineers
used
any of it anymore.