Hanging out the shingle

I'm getting some consulting work now helping people out with ChipCorder designs. If you have older designs with these products, you probably know that ISD (bought by Winbond that then changed their name to Nuvoton) has discontinued almost all of the older ChipCorder products. The part numbers ISD1000, ISD1016, ISD1020, ISD1420, ISD1110, ISD2560, ISD2590, and an increasing list of other products are now gone.

They haven't discontinued any of the long duration products that I'm aware of. So the ISD4000 series (up to 16 minutes of record time), The Swiss army knife of ChipCorders the ISD5008, and other products of that vintage are still around. Of course they have spun other products to replace the old ChipCorders. You can look at the Nuvoton product site at http://www.nuvoton.com/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/ConsumerElectronicsIC/ISDVoiceIC/ISDChipCorder/ and see whats offered today. Unfortunately, none of the new short duration ChipCorders are exact drop in replacements to the discontinued parts.

And thats where I can probably help the most, i.e. converting old designs to the new and available parts. Drop me a note on the Blog here and I'll get in touch.

Note: ChipCorder is a registered trademark of Nuvoton. This blog is an independent effort and in no way connected to Nuvoton.