Resources: Electronic Component Vendors
Use your credit card to order from these folks, once you know the part number you want)
Normal vendors:
Mouser
Electronics (excellent service, fast delivery, no minimum
order, limited selection)
Allied
Electronics (excellent service, fast delivery, reasonable
selection)
Digikey (good
service, fast delivery, reasonable selection)
Newark Electronics
(sometimes slow delivery, high shipping charges, enormous
selection)
Surplus vendors (good for browsing, or for
common items like resistor kits or power supply modules):
All
Electronics
Marlin P. Jones. &
Associates
Obsolete parts:
Graveyard
Electronics
America
II Electronics
Manufacturers (you can't buy from these folks, but good for getting datasheets):
National
Semiconductor (wide array of discrete components and
integrated circuits)
Motorola (wide
array of discrete components and integrated circuits)
Texas Instruments (now
includes Burr Brown, a manufacturer of low-current-noise op amps)
Analog
Devices (includes some of the most popular low-noise op
amps)
Linear Technology
(includes some nice high-current op amps)
Apex
Microtechnology (high voltage op amps)
Maxim
(telecommunications, ultrafast op amps)
This page maintained by Walter F. Smith. Last update: 4-30-03.