On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:35:07PM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote: > Gabriel Paubert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Indeed, while some distributors apparently still have a non-negligible > > stock of Conexant's RS8973 (www.americaii.com claims 1943), > > Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out!
I'm not affiliated in any way to AmericaII but I was looking a few weeks ago for the high speed grade (-5) of a Xilinx Spartan3A (some part of the design has to run at 400MHz, only 20 flip-flops or so, but that's a case where the speed grade makes a difference); I ended up buying the parts from them since other distributors only carried -4 or gave me 12-13 weeks of delay. > > > the transceiver is obsolete. Sorry, I did not express myself well, I meant the TI part (SN75LBC784), that one does not appear in stock in any of my providers. > > Yes, Mindspeed doesn't want to make, sell or support it any more because > they have M289xx as the "new replacement". Care to know why they > obsoleted RS8973 in favor of M289xx? RS8973 was open source-friendly, > whereas M289xx is completely closed. See this page for the full gory > details: > > http://ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG/OpenSDSL/chips/mindspeed.html Interesting... Gabriel _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
