"Micro Eng" said: > If you just want a few.....call Maxim and ask for samples. If you want > production quanties.....use someone else's product. Good idea :-) Speaking of Maxim samples, I managed to get hold of some of their High Speed microcontrollers - engineering samples of the DS89C420 (had to wait 8wks for them), DS87C520s, etc. I still prefer PICs, though - but the 89C420 makes a pretty good math copro. Shame they're not as overclockable as Microchip's offerings (hint hint). IIRC I once had a PIC16F84-10/P begging for mercy - I ran it at 20MHz for a few minutes and it crashed. Oops. Worked fine on 12MHz, though. I wonder if the 16F874 is just as overclockable... Anyone manage to get a DS9091K when Maxim were giving away free samples of the evkits shortly after the Dallas/Maxim merger? I got the 9092K I ordered, but not the 9091K (they blocked the order before it got shipped, dammit). >18 week leadtime is a > good number for that. Or you could find a disti with stock of Maxim components... Farnell seem to keep a lot of Maxim stuff permanently stocked (hmm, I wonder why). The Dallas iButtons are pretty neat, though. Shame about the 6-week lead time for the Digital Decoder Ring... And the Java iButtons... And the evaluation kits... And the.. Oh, never mind... Later. -- Phil. philpem@bigfoot.com http://www.philpem.btinternet.co.uk/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.