On Sun, 22 Feb 1998 07:18:04 -0600, you wrote:

>Check out TI and Philips/Signetics - they always have low priced op
>amps. You should be able to get one well under 1$ at 1K.
>-Wayne Foletta
>
>You wrote:
>>
>>Yah, but I sort of shudder when I hear Burr-Brown and, to a lesser
>extent,
>>Maxim. For price reasons. I need to find a dual for less than a buck
>and on
>>the Maxim CD-ROM their budgetary quotes always feel high.  Anybody
>have any
>>experience with where their budgetary quotes fall with respect to end
>price
>>paid in the 1k-5k-10k quantities? And to maintain the nebulous contact
>with
>>on-topicicity, the central device in this unit is a 12c509 and I would
>like
>>to keep it that way (i.e. I don't want to spend more for peripheral
>>components than the micro.)
>>
>>Brian
I didn't see the original spec - what characteristics do you need for
the op-amp?
If CHEAP is the most important, you can't beat the LM358 - UKP 0.14 

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