AVR-Chat

There has been a spate of "forged" AVRs from China. I would not be  
surprised if there are also some that failed test but got stolen and  
sold. That was a BIG problem in the US a few years back, so I'd not be  
surprised if that tactic shows up again.

Jim Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics

On May 30, 2010, at 6:32 PM, Dean Claxton wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I seem to have a bad batch of mega 128's in that for the current  
> project I
> am finding that 20 to 30% of the chips are not programmable, or some  
> appear
> to have faulty A/D ports.
>
> Out of 32 units last weekend, I had to replace 12 parts, and the lot  
> before
> that I had to replace 9 of 31.
>
> Has anyone come across this sort of thing before? I've checked with  
> the
> boardhouse that is assembling the PCB's and they have their ovens  
> set up
> correctly so I'm thinking that it must truly be a bd batch of parts.
>
> Dean
>
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