Am I being thick or...

Den onsdag den 2. oktober 2013 20.48.48 UTC+2 skrev John Devereux:

I don't see any prices in the tables either and it not in the list of hidden features, maybe if you log in?

-Lasse

Nope, doesn't seem to fix it. They removed the single most important actual parameter from the parametric tables.

Now, do they think I am going to examine 1400 different opamps to find the competitively priced ones? Or... will I go to Digikey where I can just click on a price column to find out immediately, and *include all their competitors*?

I gave up looking at the web sites for opamps. There are just too many, they're too similar, and it's impossible to infer costs from the specs. I just tell each vendor the parameters of interest and let them do the walking. That's what FAEs are for. ;-)

After a couple of rounds of beating them about the head and shoulders on price, I've selected have an opamp. ;-)

No, the TI site was good for that, that is why I find this so annoying! Filter on the parameters you care about, then sort by price, then choose from the first few according to which parameter you care about most.

Probably different for you (I gather you are in a high-volume industry). I have spoken to a couple of FAEs but for something like opamps I find I am able to make a much better selection than they are. Last time was when I was checking for a lower cost 5V jfet opamp (like my AD8655) and they suggested we get a price for some 30V chopper stabilised thing! I guess it would have worked, sort of, but..

I am just starting to get to the volumes where that starts to work (just a few k P.A.)

I never found it to be worth anything. Too slow and the prices were about as unreal as a WAG.

If you're buying a reel, maybe. DigiKey is good for that. For any quantity, there is no relationship between the price they listed and the real price.

Yes, fairly high volume, now. My last job was with a small company, with low volumes, but the FAEs would still do the leg work (but perhaps not jump so high ;-). If the FAE is an idiot, they lose the sale. The competition will do better.

That's only a reel a year. Their catalog prices may be good, but I still wouldn't believe them. At my last job, we weren't paying their catalog prices, either.

Yes I'm only talking to distribution here. Still managed to halve their original price on a part today.

That's really my point. If you're paying catalog prices, they don't like you for some reason. ;-)