MPS (Monolithic Power Systems), your experiences?

[DutchGert]

Hey guys,

So far we have used mainly Linear Technologies or Texas Instrument parts for power related stuff in our automotive designs. Since Linear is superiour but way to expensive and Ti is not really offering the best specs in te market we started looking at other companies.

So far we also used a few Micrel parts that perform quite nice but since Microchip bought them it's going downhill fast (part unavailible or leadtimes of 6 months....)
Exar may have have something but they seem a small fish
Analog Devices is not really strong in power and also not very big in automotive parts.

So we stumbled on MPS. Looking at there website I though hmm ok, you seem like an typical low cost, low tech company but after there FAE visited it seems they are actually a big company with very high tech pars for really nice prices.

Question is: what is your experience with MPS and are they any good compared to the giants like Linear and TI in terms of specs, price, size, leadtimes, reliability, etc?

[Scrts]

We use them a lot. Personally, I had some issues with one part, but in general all the devices worked fine.

[brumbarchris]

I'm also in automotive design, but we have not used them at all so far. We did, however, come across them in the past. It will be interesting to see the various opinions of people who have worked with their products.

Regards,
Cristian