Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

In a casual conversation with a friend who is an engineer in the telephony
community, he told me that he is FORBIDDEN to design anything using a part
that is not available from at least three sources because of the danger of a
component manufacturer deciding to drop a part and suddenly take down an
entire product line. The only possible exception is microprocessors, which
end up being a necessary risk. I remember when the CEM/SSM chips came out...
I thought they were God's gift to synthesists the minute I read about them.
Now I look at my ESQ-M and Mono/Poly and wonder when they will become so
much scrap.


-----Original Message-----
.... A really good VCO that
∗does not depend on some critical part that is no longer
made∗. Yes,
folks said the same thing when the uA726 went away. But
other matched
pairs existed--not the case for a custom IC. In addition,
to offer a
modular system means to effectively offer a ∗complete
solution∗, not just
nifty modules to fill in the gaps between "stuff I already
have".
.