Electronic samples ?

[boguslaw]

Hello

I'd like to ask everybody who can help : is that still possible to get small quantities (like 1-2 item) of electronic samples from electronic corporations ?

(Funny thing that I had no necessity to ask them for samples when I managed my small firm because I had no free time to think about it , but now my business is gone and I found that with my commercial email address I also lost such possibility )

I tried to contact Micrel for mosfet driver sample but they even do not have my country on their list. Looks like I'm living in place more forgotten then Antiqua and Barbuda...

[arKzeRo]

Hi yeh here are a few.....

Microchip - Microcontrollers and other ICs (Very student friendly)
Microchip - Samples Web Site

National Semiconductor - Many types of analog and digital ICs
Answers/FAQs

Analog Devices - Many types of analog and digital ICs
Sampling with Analog Devices | Analog Devices

Texas Instruments - Lots of stuff
Analog, Embedded Processing, Semiconductor Company, Texas Instruments - TI.com

Freescale - Many Discrete and ICs
Order Samples

and here is an excellent list of manufacturers willing to give away just about every component out there! Free Electronic Samples

some of the companies like to give to professionals and some prefer students, some have questionnaires on intended usage and possible market!
ha ha hit them all and post pictures of your free goodies

hope that helps! - Jay

[jonabel1971]

Here's a little tip. If you do ask companies for samples - just don't call them "samples".

Call them "demonstration components" or a "demonstration amount of components".

Using the word "demonstration" - instead of "sample" allowed me to retain materials from 10 companies for my Stan Meyer replication.

Good Luck.

Hello

I'd like to ask everybody who can help : is that still possible to get small quantities (like 1-2 item) of electronic samples from electronic corporations ?

(Funny thing that I had no necessity to ask them for samples when I managed my small firm because I had no free time to think about it , but now my business is gone and I found that with my commercial email address I also lost such possibility )

I tried to contact Micrel for mosfet driver sample but they even do not have my country on their list. Looks like I'm living in place more forgotten then Antiqua and Barbuda...

[boguslaw]

Thank you very much I realized that Microchip has the same mosfet driver I'm looking for TC4452 model.


BTW. Do you know maybe how to differentiate between normal and low ESR version of ceramic capacitors ? Very good quality ceramic low ESR capacitor + MKP type polypropylene (high current impulse) decoupling is essential for mosfet drivers.

[jonabel1971]

Sorry, I haven't looked into it.

Thank you very much I realized that Microchip has the same mosfet driver I'm looking for TC4452 model.


BTW. Do you know maybe how to differentiate between normal and low ESR version of ceramic capacitors ? Very good quality ceramic low ESR capacitor + MKP type polypropylene (high current impulse) decoupling is essential for mosfet drivers.