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Where do you order IC parts from?

I have been trying to get a simple SRAM chip at 8mbit. It seems that there are 20 manufacturers who make them, and nowhere to buy or get a few samples.

Digikey is where I started, but everythings out of stock except cyprus parts. Those parts are a bit more complex and high powered than I wanted. The Toshiba parts look great but theyre out of stock.

I've tried mouser, arrownac, and took one part number from digikey TC55VBM416AFTN55 and googled around for 1.5 days. Tried to seek Toshiba distributors, no luck.

Where can I get an 8mbit SRAM (or bigger) from? I dont want to get into PSRAM yet. More generally, where do you get your IC parts from in small sample quantities outside of arrownac and digikey?

Reply to
ghazanhaider
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Some parts are just inherently difficult to buy in non-production quantities. SDRAM, for instance. You can usually get sample quantities through a rep. Low-volume production is much harder. I haven't found a good answer to this.

Reply to
larwe

You mean 8Mbit, don't you? I've never heard of a millibit.

Hmmm, no, you actually mean 16Mbit - that's what the Toshiba part above is.

Sorry I don't have any real help for you. I have a purchasing dept that tracks down samples for me. If they tell me they can't find it, then I spec a differrent part. BTW: tell us where on the planet you are. Distributors have specific territories but this news group is world-wide.

Bob

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Bob

We buy most of our SRAM/DRAM/SDRAM directly from Taiwan. There's a rumor that Brilliance, who has a nice line of low power async SRAMs, has signed a distribution deal with Future so you might want to try them.

Reply to
Jim Stewart

I'm in Toronto, so any western world source is easy.

Taiwan would be OK unless they require you to speak chinese. I speak 4 languages and Chinese isnt one.

I know that Toshiba part is 16Mbit, I meant I'm looking for 8Mbit or above. Looking for 16 or 32-bit interface at 3.3v and can accept 70ns or even slower.

I'm not a big company so getting samples might be tough. Unless its as easy as getting samples from Maxim or Microchip. Don't have a purchasing dept either. Part of the problem is that googling a part gives you so many 'inventory' type pages which lead you nowhere, and theres no central repository to browse through. Maybe the manufacturers should themselves sell single unit parts as samples no matter what the cost.

I'll go check Taiwanese sources. Maybe I'll get lucky.

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ghazanhaider

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