Search the EEVblog forums for more people (myself included) hating on Maxim. Here's one thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/maxim-love-_em-or-hate-_e

Search the EEVblog forums for more people (myself included) hating on Maxim. Here's one thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/maxim-love-_em-or-hate-_em/ https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/maxim-love-_em-or-hat... Suffice it to say that supply is awful. Often your choices are (1) what's in stock today at distributors or (2) how many wafers per month are you going to buy from us (and it better be a lot)? Plus there are a fair few datasheets under NDA and parts that make no sense; those are obviously semi-customs for some customer that made it to the general market somehow. These days the only Maxim parts I'll design in are ones that have second sources (like standard package op-amps). Their RTCs and voltage references have historically been okay, but I still try to avoid them: once bitten, twice shy....