I sampled four different IC-types from National this weekend, all were
some kind of motor interface-ICs. Today I got four mails (one per
sampled IC-type) from National, all saying that they're sorry and they
have to charge me a small shipping fee since I'm outside the US.

No problems with that, I thought, so I opened the four links where I
could add my Visa-card etc. These "small" fees were, in order: $80.40,
$73.40, $77.40, $66.20, making a total sum of $297.40 - which
DEFINATELY is a "small fee", yessir!

Too bad, because I was a potential customer.

So I googled around for other manufacturers.I found Intersil, but
their web pages were even more braindead; when I "sampled" the parts,
what the web did was to add my email address to a mailing list for the
particular part type.

Are there any other MOSFET H-bridge IC-manufacturers with the ability to sample?


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