Well as a follow up - my samples from Exar (through DT Electronics) arrived
the next day.

The samples from Maxim I ordered on Monday turned up first thing this
morning.

I am now redesigning my circuit to use the Exar devices - I get them cheaper
than the NSC equivalent so the only people who have lost out by not sending
out samples are NSC themselves this time.

The issue I had was that I only needed a couple of these units - I could
have ordered them from my distributors but because of minimum orders and
postage charges it made them relatively expensive.

Dom 

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Alan B. Pearce
Sent: 18 May 2005 09:38
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT]: Samples Rant

>I'd send a nicely worded written (hard copy) letter to the head office 
>(in the US) and ask them why the hassle.

Well, I would say the hassle is because he tried to sample common widely
available devices, which are cheap enough to get almost anywhere. On this
basis I can understand their reticence to supply, but equally why they
couldn't have someone go and pick some chips off the shelf as a piece of
good will - well who knows.

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