Parallax SX Chips

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• Jon Williams Posts: 6,491

  2005-10-15 12:32 edited 2005-10-15 12:32

  You're not happy that we've already lowered the prices?....
  
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  Jon Williams
  Applications Engineer, Parallax
• william chan Posts: 1,326

  2005-10-15 15:55 edited 2005-10-15 15:55

  When was that?
  Which chip's price was reduced?
  I didn't see any announcement or changes in pricing....
• LoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537

  2005-10-15 16:28 edited 2005-10-15 16:28

  I think that Jon means the SX-48/52 demo board which is a real 'steal' for $9.95.
  
  William Chan, yur a great inflation figher. But something has to pay for all this human support. There are still Sx-18s and the SX-28 rails on sale. Oh, and their is the SX-Blitz for those that cannot afford the SX-Key.
  
  Try looking at the sale area.
  
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• Jon Williams Posts: 6,491

  2005-10-15 17:45 edited 2005-10-15 17:45

  Indeed -- we were asked to provide bare boards for $10, but my boss (Ken) loves to give our customers more than they expect so he decided we'd stuff them and keep the price at $10. It's hard to beat that kind of deal.
  
  William, we're doing everything we can to keep SX prices fair and still provide you a high-level of support. I think you'll find that when you're ready to do a big (10K+) OEM deal the prices get better than the low-volume pricing we publish. That said, no matter how many SX chips you want to buy, we'll be here to help out as best we can.
  
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• Ken Gracey Posts: 7,418

  2005-10-15 17:51 edited 2005-10-15 17:51

  William,
  
  Of course the prices will be lower - much lower.
  
  But as you know from other posts, this isn't happening until we get our first Parallax labelled SX chips in November.
  
  Ken Gracey
  Parallax, Inc.
• ChrisP Posts: 136

  2005-10-16 14:57 edited 2005-10-16 14:57

  Eagerly awaiting the SX Blitz, backup for my sx Key, that and I cant use the debug anyway as I have no clue how to read it yet.
• Jon Williams Posts: 6,491

  2005-10-16 15:17 edited 2005-10-16 15:17

  If you haven't tried SX Sim you should - I have found it very helpful when working through programs, and it doesn't require the SX-Key. SX-Sim is built into the latest version of the SX-Key IDE, so you may want to download that if you don't already have it.
  
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• ChrisP Posts: 136

  2005-10-16 15:24 edited 2005-10-16 15:24

  Here's to the simple things, that would have probably saved me some headaches with weird time sequencing issues on the last project. Just been building and debugging on the bench, the comment about not being able to use the debug was because I have no clue what I'm looking at in Assembler, the key I have, the knowledge I dont, maybe this time next year I'll have a better handle on it. Downloaded and installing. Thanks [noparse]:)[/noparse]
• Jon Williams Posts: 6,491

  2005-10-16 15:34 edited 2005-10-16 15:34

  What I like about the SX-Sim is that it has an I/O panel so you can simulate simple inputs and see what happens at the outputs.
  
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• LoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537

  2005-10-17 14:32 edited 2005-10-17 14:32

  The real advantage of the SX-Sim is that you don't have to plug in a board and power supply and SX-Key to work through the tutorials.
  
  It simulates all that!
  
  Far less clutter and you can jump into a quick review or study session.
  
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