On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:40:43 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

I've had a request to quote the design of a pin-for-pin replacement of
the MAX4581.

Not being on the buying side of such stuff, is this really a
hard-to-get part?

It's not a terribly difficult thing to design (I did the ON-Semi re-do
of the 4051-52-53 series many years ago), but I'm suspicious that I'm
being used as a price-reduction tool :-)

...Jim Thompson

And being used as a price-reduction tool is all that bad? bg