[sdiy] What other chips to list?

[James Patchell]

Here is a list I made myself...geese...5 years ago now....I can't believe it...

http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/usefulparts/usefull.html

Some of the parts are off the radar now, because of the reason you wouldn't 
list them...(no longer made)....

At 02:06 AM 3/6/2005 -0500, Aaron Lanterman wrote:

>I've started to put together a page intended as a resource for Tech
>students interested in doing synth-diy stuff for our Senior Design class,
>among other things:
>
>users.ece.gatech.edu/~lanterma/sdiy
>
>Of course, I hope this can be useful to the DIY community in general.b
>
>I've listed some OTAs, Nortons, "universal filters" (MAX274/MAX275,
>LTC1563/1562, Burr-Brown UAF42 - anyone have any experience at making
>these voltage controlled?), and chips that seem like they might be useful
>for making VCO.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1) Am I listing any chips that totally suck that I should take _off_ the
>list?
>
>2) Any other chips in those categories I should list? (Note I'm avoiding
>listing CEM/SSM/CA3080/anything else that's out of production.)
>
>3) I'm starting to collect DAC data sheets for control-voltage purposes.
>So far, the MCP4921/4922 12-bit and the TC1321 10-bit and the
>TL5608/5610/5629 (12, 10, and 8 bit) look pretty interesting and worth
>listing. (One was recommend by Paul S., but I can't remember which one
>now - actually,m I think it was the TL series, since they're 8-output, so
>you don't need external demuxes and such.) Any other favorites that I
>should list, and more to the point, get for student use? (assume they'll
>be using PIC microcontrollers, which we have a ton of and use in a lot of
>our courses)
>
>After 12 years of being a theoretician, it's kinda fun looking at data
>sheets again...
>
>- Aaron
>
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         -Jim
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