FV-1 chips

[DaveTV]

In case anyone's interested, I just received an e-mail from Steve at Small Bear saying he'll have some FV-1 chips in stock soon. This is good news for anyone who's had any problems getting their hands on this chip.

[uncle_benny!]

Cool. I've been thinking about getting one.

If smallbear gets them in it will be so much easier.

thanks

Ben

[Dave_B]

Is there any word on the cost of the chip and dev board? 

[MetalGuy]

If you buy directly from the distributor the price for a single chip is very high, but for 25+ pcs it's OK. If Smallbear gets them I expect them to cost around $15 the piece but that's only my opinion.

[smallbearelec]

I just posted them. SKU 1923, $17.00.

Regards
SD

[Dave_B]

Thanks, Steve!

[MetalGuy]

The replacement for the mysterious encoder listed by Spinsemi and as seen on their demo PCBs  seems to be Grayhill's series 25L 4-bit binary Code Hexadecimal 16-position Digikey's part #GH3074-ND:

http://rocky.digikey.com/scripts/ProductInfo.dll?Site=US&V=136&M=25LB22-G

How I came to this conclusion? I compared the output table of the binary switch from the development board...

http://www.alliedelec.com/Images/Products/Datasheets/BM/GRAYHILL_INC/Grayhill-Inc_Industrial-Control_9489007.pdf

...with the output table of Grayhill's one. They matched. Pins on the demo PCB matched as well. First 8 positions of the encoder /clockwise/ should switch between internal programs, the rest 8 positions between external /RAM/ programs. Cheers!

[mojotron]

So do you have to make your own FV-1 Development System or is someone selling them?

Anyone know?

Anyone have a mask image for the Dev board?