[sdiy] Ne5517 or rubber donut!

[Senso]

No longer made is not necessary no longer available. I think I still 
have enough LM13600's to make a lot of people happy. And no minimum 
order of 450 pieces. :-))

Senso


>Well, for one, the LM13600 is no longer made.  You can get the 
>NJM13600 which is a second source part from Mouser, but as far as I 
>know, that is it.  The most significant thing about the NE5517 is 
>that ON semiconductor only recently started making them.  It was 
>kind of good news because for the past couple of years, 
>manufacturers have been stopped making a lot of OTA's.  Recently, 
>Intersil stopped making the CA3080, National stopped making the 
>LM13600.  I could have also sworn that they stopped making the 
>LM13700, but that part is fully active again.  There also used to be 
>a lot of other OTA makers as well, they have all stopped (EXAR is 
>one of these, they used to make the XR13600).
>
>        -Jim
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>http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell
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>At 12:12 AM 12/4/2004 +0100, Senso wrote:
>>It's nice to know there are two suppliers. But neither of them for 
>>small amounts, which would be much more useful to most people here.
>>
>>Now excuse my ignorance if this is a stupid question... what makes 
>>the availability of the NE5517 so special? What's wrong with using 
>>the LM13600?
>>
>>Senso



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