I don't even know how they can call them programable.  Kind of like calling a
standard quartz crystal programmable.

Erik Reikes wrote:

> 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