Hi,

We were faced with the same issue.  I believe that we went with 3.3 volts
and I tried for many, many, weeks to get ISD to sign up to 3.5 volts.  They
would not commit.  They did some testing and tap dancing and finally would
not commit.  Certainly it was OK for breadboard, demo boards, etc.  If you
look at their programming board, I believe that they used 3.3 volts.  We put
down two surface mount pads for varying pin assignment layouts just in case
of availability issues.  Ended up with Mot SOT-89 package.

Craig


>PICers,
>
>I've been looking at the ISD 33000
>voice player chip. It's OK but
>needs a 3V supply & 3V regs are
>awkward to get ahold of. Anybody
>know how critical the 3V limit is?
>