TI is doing a promotion honoring the invention of the integrated circuit - we can discuss off-list who did what when, but suffice to say this was a couple weeks (or nine months plus a couple weeks) after the invention of me ;) Anyway, discounts and free shipping on some interesting eval boards, dev kits, etc: http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/store/kilby-week-september.page?keyMatch=kilby%20day&tisearch=Search-EN-Everything ...tom