At 09:22 PM 10/20/99 -0300, you wrote:
>Brian Kraut wrote:
>
>> I have seen some low cost programmable oscillators from Epson in
>> DigiKey's catalog.  The SG-8002 is programmable from 1-125MHz with 50ppm
>> stability.  They are under $4.00 each.  I thought that it would be good
>> to keep a few around for prototyping when I need an oddball fequency and
>> don't want to order a crystal and wait for it.  Anyone have any
>> experience with these?  Is there anything special needed to program
>> them?
>>
>> What would really be great is something like this that is not OTP for my
>> proto boards.  Are there any "EPROM" type programmable oscillators out
>> there?

I know exactly the ones you are talking about.  They are 'programmed' at
the factory, and that's the only way, unfortunately.  I had planned to use
them for a project but there was a 12 week lead time on the freq. I needed,
so I changed my design....

-Erik Reikes