All the nice FM radio ICs are gone, sniff sniff

Mar 03, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 5 Replies

All of them, just in the last year or so.



SA604A/SA614A was a fave, although not as nice as the late lamented MC13155.



BITD I used to use the RSSI outputs for all sorts of stuff--even some of the micropower chips would give megahertz detection bandwidths if you ran the RSSI output into a very low impedance, such as a biased cascode or fast TIA.



You can still get the TL026 AGC amp, the SA571 compandor, and allegedly the MC1496, but all the nice NXP and onsemi oscillator/mixer and IF amp/limiter ones are gone,



There were things you could do with those for $2 that are much harder now. I still have lots for lab protos, but in the scheme of things I'm less likely to use them since they'll never make it into an actual instrument.



A pity.



Cheers



Phil Hobbs


Motorola used to have some fun linear ICs. I designed some microphone AGC amps and some HF carrier links for the NYC subway paging system. I think I used the MC1496. OK, blame me when nothing is intelligable.

The sa636 is still active, although I dont see any stock.

Cheers

Last buy date May 27th, 2022. :(

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Am 08.03.23 um 18:06 schrieb Martin Rid:

Summer of 2026 at DK.

NXP website says EOL, unfortunately, with last shipments in May '23.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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