[sdiy] Re: Inexpensive 16 bit DAC?

[Ryan Williams]

I'm working on this school project right now, I have received about 6 
DDS ICs as free samples from Analog over the last 3 months or so (blew 
up half of them).  These are like $20 each in singles and I always make 
sure to put that it is for a school project but say what we are building.

Most of these places will just hand out parts.  Maxim has given me tons 
of stuff over the last few years. Intersil sent me a bunch of CA3280s 
and HFA3096 and all I said was that I wanted to do some experiments with 
discrete vs IC OTAs.  As long as I state my intentions in the comment 
box and put 'student' as my job title, I don't feel bad about receiving 
the parts. I figure if it wasn't an acceptable reason to get free parts, 
then they wouldn't send them.

-Ryan

Bob Weigel wrote:
> Usually you have to tell them that you are like working on something 
> where you might actually BUY some chips to get samples...or does Analog 
> just hand them out to anyone?  I could have been getting samples all 
> along for the project I'm working on from microchip but I haven't even 
> had time to ask for them and I feel bad doing it because we really don't 
> need them except that that company is out of money I guess so maybe we 
> do :-). -Bob
>