On 06/07/16 04:00, Scott Zimmerman wrote:
Have you purchased and used any of the chips from Alibaba? I have had BAD luck in the past getting cm119's from eBay and such. I get them from a CMedia distributor for about $2 each. Yes, they are more expensive, but I know if I take the time to solder them to a board, they will work!!!
On 7/5/2016 3:09 PM, Steve Wright wrote: I have had a few fake products delivered, but always they are extremely fast on the 'refund and apologise profusely' button. I wouldn't call it a bad experience.
Soldering a 48 pin LQFP and having it be fake is nothing short of a bad experience. Like Scott, I recently purchased a fair quantity of CM119A's from a top CM distributor. They told us the CM119 and CM119A are now legacy products and the CM119B is current. Unfortunately, the B model doesn't use a crystal and several developers agree that they may not be suitable for digital and analog radio adapter applications. There were still a few hundred CM119A's in the distribution chain as of a few months ago. Kevin