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".
		.