TMS320F28335 Availability

I have similar problem with the availability. I cannot even get on hold samples of it. I thought this part has been in production for a few years, am I wrong? any one uses this chip in production already?

The F2833x MCUs are in high demand and the team is working around the clock to bring down lead times. We sincerely regret the effect that delays may have on your productivity. You should be receiving shipping updates when changes occur, and your local sales offices can also provide you with up-to-date information.

Oh now, I can't just let that go unanswered.  This has been going on for years and years -- far longer than it takes to bring up a fab.  And those buyers who hope that it will improve anytime soon are welcome to peruse my folder of empty promises going back a decade.  Naturally, those people in a position to change TI's policy of keeping the supply tight are not likely to be reading this forum, so I will just remind the designers out there what they should already know: if you intend to go into production with _any_ TI part, you _must_ lock in a delivery schedule with your disti before finalizing the design.

The problem is that no distibutor can be commited to a delivery schedule. If there is a delay

from the factory the say " we regret for the delay but.....". When I say  to my clients I regret but....

they usally say to me "good bye and have a nice day". I decided to migrate to Freescale kinetis ,which

to my previous experince has now such severe delivery problems and which the new kinetis family is really

strong at a fraction of the cost of the TI's DSCs.

Thanks for the replies

There has been a major, major spike in demand of 28x devices over the last 18 months.  We have upped capacity output over 50%, and have plans in place to do much more.  The simple explanation is that to not have had any delivery problems we would have had to put in motion a doubling of our capacity during the fall of '08, which as you all will recall is when the market completely retracted and customers stopped placing orders and forecasts were complete guesses.

TI - like all of you - wants to ship as much of our product as possible, and we are all very regretful that we aren't yet keeping up with demand.

On a positive side, all of the F28x devices are in a mature, high quality process technology, so we are not hampered by new technology production delays.  I would hate to be trying to ramp in this environment with a new architecture, new peripherals, and a new process node like some of our competitors.

Regarding Kinetis, the available Piccolo F2806x is extremely price competitive vs. the Kinetis announced devices which have floating point.  Be aware that much of that product line is just the M4 (no F) fixed point version.  Piccolo F2802x and F2803x are both in high volume production today, at similar prices, and with 10 years of MCU, DSP, Motor Control, Digital Power, Power Line Modem, Lighting, and graphical simulation and code gen tool experience.