"ChipS" wrote in message
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Joe, I'd gladly use the Analog Devices DDS chips if they offered them in
something other than a SadoMasochistic Device (SMD) package. It's a darn
shame they can't make a limited run (say 10k) of some of these chips in a
PDIP package for hams and other r.f. experimenters.

That would be cost-prohibitive ... to tool up to make the parts in obsolete
packages
that the production line is no longer using would cost a fortune.

If they put the AD9835 in a PDIP and sold it for about $10.00 (the TSSOP
packaged version sells for about $6, I think) , I'd buy a dozen for
various
projects, but in the tiny SMD package they're nothing but useless to me.

I'm new to the newsgroup and am sure that this is not the first gripe
about
SMD's, but I refuse to use them - not because I can't (at least not yet),
but because I don't want to endure the angst.

What "angst"??? SMD parts are not "hard to work with" - they just require
that you learn and use different techniques ... the ARRL has some very good
material on their website on using SMD parts.

73,
Carl - wk3c