AVR-Chat

fnatmed wrote:
> 
> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Koss" <gkoss@n...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > To deviate from the main topic a bit, I am looking for a source of
> > Caller ID chips. I would rather work with the HT9032 series or the
> > MC14LC5447.  I can not find a source of these chips that is within
> > the price range of a hobbyist.  Does anyone out there now of a
> source
> > for any of these chips, must be DIP, or another chip that does
> Caller
> > ID?  Thanks for all your help.
> 
> Every phone out there does CallerID these days.  What do the big
> boys use for it ?  Cellphones are compute monsters, so they probably
> do it all in firmware ...  Come to think of it, so are most cordless
> phones too.
> 
> Hrm - opportunity ?  SOme do a TinyAVR as a CallerID decoder ?
> 
> Dean.

The Mitel MT88E46, now made by Zarlink Semi, http://www.zarlink.com looks good
on paper though I'm not sure how one gets less than 50K parts. It's not listed
on Digikey. Might try begging some samples.

Bruce