On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:56:33 +1300, you wrote:

>A friend says:
>Linear Tech have introduced a family of devices packaged as 6-pin SOT-23's=
 (and
>as DFN's if you have masochistic tendencies) called TimerBlox.
>
>These provide various simple timing-related functions.
>
>The family (designated LTC699x) currently includes the following members:
>
>LTC6990 =A0VCO (488 Hz to 2MHz)
>LTC6991 =A0uHz clock (period from 1ms to 9.5 hrs)
>LTC6992 =A0PWM (4 variants having different duty cycle ranges)
>LTC6993 =A0one-shot (4 trigger variants, each 1us to 34s)
>LTC6994 =A0delay (2 trigger variants, each 1us to 34s)
>
>All are based on an internal low-power oscillator =A0- and I think control=
 inputs
>are analog in all cases.
>
>Haven't looked at them in detail yet and being LT they won't be as cheap a=
s they
>should be, but potentially useful in all sorts of applications.

Ridiculously expensive - several times cost of a PIC10F plus factory progra=
mming & marking - may
have a few niche apps, or be useful where you need VCO etc. but can't see w=
hy you'd use one in an
app that a PIC10F could do the job

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