Lifecycle note — Active with an EOL flag, source with caution
The manufacturer lists this part as Active, but the evidence also carries an end-of-life hot flag. That combination typically means a PCN has been issued or is imminent. No official last-time-buy date or successor MPN appears in the record. If this part is on a production BOM, request the current PCN status and consider qualifying a replacement before the window closes. available via RFQ confirmation now is genuine factory-date-code material; mystery lots surfacing later may be suspect.
Sourcing and fit for your BOM
The 36Mbit density and 18-bit data width target designs that need moderate-depth, wide-word buffer memory — common in Ethernet frame buffers, CAM lookaside, and DSP coefficient storage.
