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From: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: source for dsp56000
Message-ID: <5841@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 4 Jun 90 23:17:29 GMT
References: <594@mercury.iotek.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@videovax.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <594@mercury.iotek.UUCP> garyb@iotek.UUCP (Gary Burrell) writes:
>Does any one out there know what a reasonable price for a DSP 56000 is? 
>I was quoted $195 canadian, this seems unreasonably high.  Is it just 
>the distributer screwing the customer for a part which is not used alot
>or is  Motorola out to lunch on their pricing ( since TI has anounced a 
>C31 floating point DSP for $35 U.S.)

This is not necessarily unreasonable.  The going rate in the US for the 27 MHz
PGA seems to be about $150 in single quantities.  On the other hand, large
quantities of cheaper packages (the ceramic PGA is very expensive as packages
go) can be had for a lot less (~$50).

As far as the $35 TI part, be careful.  They are probably quoting the 1000
piece price for the lowest speed part in the cheapest package, and you can
expect other quanitites and configurations to cost more.  (BTW, all vendors do
this, so I'm not trying to slam TI.)
-- 
Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
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Phone: (503) 627-6920       "The biggest difference between developing a missle
component and a toy is the 'cost constraint.'" -- John Anderson, Engineer, TI