At 12:42 PM 7/19/2004, Charles Craft wrote:

>I'm working on a circuit that will be powered from the RS-232 DTR line.
>The LM2936 is a great chip for that but expensive - over a $1.00 even in
>1000's qty.

How about LP2950 from NS.  Great little part.  Future shows the Sipex clone
for US $0.38 in quantity 1-99, 0.21 in thousands.

dwayne

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