Has anyone dealt with Avnet? or NuHorizons when trying to purchase Xilinx stuff
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From: Raban on 18 Apr 2008 14:17 Hello, I am new to this FPGA stuff and I wanted to purchase a starter kit and get volume pricing for a few Xilinx FPGA's If one where to buy through Avnet or maybe NuHorizons, would anyone like to share your past experiences when working with them? It seems all they care are who you are, what company you work with, what you exactly are you doing. In other words, how many parts are you going to buy from us before I spend any time with you. Do you have to be a big company or are they trying to discourage small startups or students or whoever? Like what do you have to purchase, software or hardware or what dollar amount to do you have to purchase just to get few questions answered, sales wise for pricing or even worse, tech support? Thanks.
From: John Adair on 19 Apr 2008 13:03
Distributors nowadays are pushed to fairly tight margins so you may find won't a lot of interest in a low volume, low value, projects. Digikey mentioned elsewhere is good if you are in the small numbers production and even have stock in many cases. Stock is a rarer item at both NuHorizons and Silica/Avnet but sometimes they do have items. We use all three of these distributors can particularly fault any of them and use whatever one is most suitable for any given project. Distributors also like to "claim" projects as they get paid a margin on any project they support and hence all the questions they ask. If you want minimm hassle in this respect then Digikey wins. If you are on a high volume project then Nuhorizons or Silica will be the better open for volume purchases. John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. On 18 Apr, 19:17, "Raban" <or09...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to this FPGA stuff and I wanted to purchase a starter kit and get > volume pricing for a few Xilinx FPGA's > > If one where to buy through Avnet or maybe NuHorizons, would anyone like to > share your past experiences when working with them? > > It seems all they care are who you are, what company you work with, what you > exactly are you doing. In other words, how many parts are you going to buy > from us before I spend any time with you. > > Do you have to be a big company or are they trying to discourage small > startups or students or whoever? > > Like what do you have to purchase, software or hardware or what dollar > amount to do you have to purchase just to get few questions answered, sales > wise for pricing or even worse, tech support? > > Thanks. |