Gold star for Texas Instruments - Burr-Brown

[peranders]

Hi!

I have for the first time tested TI's samples program. Ordered late Friday (USA) and got the parcel (UPS) today Wednesday morning (Sweden). Items for 150 USD without asking too much.

I ordered BUF634 and OPA627 SMD. Plan to design a headphone amp with only (where possible) SMD parts. I plan also to make a very small vinyl amp.

[halojoy]

Originally posted by peranders
Hi!
I have for the first time tested TI's samples program. Ordered late Friday (USA) and got the parcel (UPS) today Wednesday morning (Sweden). Items for 150 USD without asking too much.

I ordered BUF634 and OPA627 SMD. Plan to design a headphone amp with only (where possible) SMD parts. I plan also to make a very small vinyl amp.

Nice to hear, peranders.
There is hope for us in Europe!

/halo - BUF634 & OPA627 makes halo lick his lips
- peranders' headphones will have a happy time, from now on

[Petter]

TI have really come around. I find myself considering TI parts first in almost all applications ...

Petter

[zeno]

I ordered some samples from National S last week. 5 LM3875.

Order on monday, got them in the mail on wednesday.

No problemo!

Marc

[peranders]

Has anyone tested BUF634F (DDPAK, SMD) with +-15V supply voltage and high speed mode? Hot? Heatsink in the pcb? Opinions?

[bknauss]

I ordered a handful of samples from TI late in the day on Monday and received them Tuesday afternoon. Very nice compared to National's longer expected ship dates. Gold star for UPS overnight.

I also found their articles on different audio apllications with their chips to be very nice too. Another gold star.

And Burr Brown... yet another gold star. We have a hat trick!

[Christer]

Per-Anders,

did you order the samples as a private person, or through your
job? I suppose it works in either case, but there is quite a
difference.

[peranders]

Originally posted by Christer
Per-Anders, did you order the samples as a private person, or through your
job? I suppose it works in either case, but there is quite a
difference.

Normally I take it through my work, much easier. Sometimes when the parts are obvoius "non-work" parts I usually say that it's for hobby use. Works every time. I got real surprised when I begged for crystals (for my DAC and ADC project) from Kvartselektronik. I got samples for free despite the fact that we (my company) not are customers. Gold star for the nice lady at Kvartselektronik!

[Christer]

Originally posted by peranders

Normally I take it through my work, much easier. Sometimes when the parts are obvoius "non-work" parts I usually say that it's for hobby use. Works every time. I got real surprised when I begged for crystals (for my DAC and ADC project) from Kvartselektronik. I got samples for free despite the fact that we (my company) not are customers. Gold star for the nice lady at Kvartselektronik!

I guess many companies have a helpful attitude. Once upon a
time, as they say in the fairy tales, I had a small hobby company
together with some friends. We were still in high-school then.
Anyway, I wanted to do some experiments with a Fairchild IC
that none of the usual companies like Elfa had. I phoned
Fairchild Sweden and asked if I could buy one directly from them.
The answer was, "no, but we can send you a sample". I had
never heard of samples before, but it arrived next day.

Later I worked with electronics design professionally for a
couple of years, and had very good contacts for getting
samples. This was still long before internet (well, in the modern
sense). I used to read about new components in EDN that
would solve the problem I was just working on and asked for
samples before the swedish represenatives had even heard
about the component. Some of them were very good at
begging early samples from the factories for me. In one case
they even excused themselves that I could only get 4 samples.
They had only received 10, and had to give the others to
Ericsson first.

It still remains for me to try internet samples, but a friend tried
it from AD some time ago and it worked fine. He did fake a
company name, though.

[peranders]

Originally posted by Christer
It still remains for me to try internet samples, but a friend tried
it from AD some time ago and it worked fine. He did fake a
company name, though.

AD is the best. They throw samples at you! I have a pile of samples, including audio DAC's. But TI is catching up. They may be even better! Cirrus/Crystal is more hard to get buddies with nowadays, better before.