If you email Cypress, they will give out samples.  I have some sample
USB drivers coming for the IEEE Store at the university.  Very nice
people.  But you're quite right, Samples are vital to a business.  W/O
samples, students would not become familiar with the product and the
product would eventually fall out of favor.


Shawn Wilton
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Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>>Other companies that make it easy to use their products because the
>>prices and method of getting products are good:
>>- Maxim IC
>
>
> I must agree their sampling is generous, but where cvan I actualy buy
> lets say 100 of those wonderfull chips?
>
>
>>But I guess what matters more are the companies that seem too big for
>>themselves to make products that are easy to learn about and obtain.
>>Here is the list of companies that I avoid:
>>
>>- Motorola
>>- Cypress
>>- Philips
>>- too many others to name
>
>
> I agree with Motorola on the black list. I am not so sure about Philips,
> lots and lots of the common no-brand chips and transistors that I buy
> turn out to be Philips. But maybe that's because I am in Europe.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
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