opinion on power supply design workshop

[Joerg]

Unless the company making the chip can't deliver quantities in time.
Then the firmware solution, the discrete solution, or pretty much any
other solution is a better solution. Because it avoids the single-source
problem.

You remind me of some old lady that got cheated by some name your ethnic
minority and thus has concluded for the rest of eternity that said
ethnic minority is a bunch of crooks. [Those damn Martians screwed me. I
will never buy from extra-terrestrials again!]

You need to get out more, talk to engineers in companies. Or go on
Digikey, key in "DC DC Switching Regulators".

Maxim total: 1221
Maxim in stock: 356

TI total: 7291
TI in stock: 3459

OK, Maxim dissed your dinky company. Get over it. Years ago they screwed
lots of people, but the people responsible for such nonsense are gone.

That's what some folks promised over and over again. Just promises. The
example above is from right now, today.

[Still plenty more people need to be shown the door, but plenty of
wankers retired.] Buy from LTC, TI, whatever.

Oh, I do buy from those. What I buy personally is of no consequence to
them or Maxim. The design decisions I make are.

 

[Joerg]

Unless the company making the chip can't deliver quantities in time.
Then the firmware solution, the discrete solution, or pretty much any
other solution is a better solution. Because it avoids the single-source
problem.

You remind me of some old lady that got cheated by some name your ethnic
minority and thus has concluded for the rest of eternity that said
ethnic minority is a bunch of crooks. [Those damn Martians screwed me. I
will never buy from extra-terrestrials again!]

You need to get out more, talk to engineers in companies. Or go on
Digikey, key in "DC DC Switching Regulators".

Maxim total: 1221
Maxim in stock: 356

TI total: 7291
TI in stock: 3459

OK, Maxim dissed your dinky company. Get over it. Years ago they screwed
lots of people, but the people responsible for such nonsense are gone.

That's what some folks promised over and over again. Just promises. The
example above is from right now, today.

[Still plenty more people need to be shown the door, but plenty of
wankers retired.] Buy from LTC, TI, whatever.

Oh, I do buy from those. What I buy personally is of no consequence to
them or Maxim. The design decisions I make are.

Back in the day, I worked in a two-man company, and my rule was to
triple-source everything I could, and lifecycle stock everything I
couldn't. Because those companies don't care if a 2-man outfit lives
or dies.

That is the reason why I sometimes design with discretes where there
would have been an IC. But there are certain companies I trust pretty
well and others that I do not trust. Over 15 years of my career was as a
consultant where one has many clients. You see a lot of grief around you
when in that role, folks not able to procure materials, line stop
situations, and so on. The good thing for me was that vaporware chips
have brought me several design-out jobs.