For Telamon
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Telamon wrote:
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David Eduardo wrote:
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As unbelievable as it may seem, not everything is on the Internet.
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In fact, since the dot com bubble burst, there has been a major
decline in the availability of technical material on the 'Net
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I'm not sure what it is you are addressing here but the subject is
what is available from the semiconductor web sites. I can tell you for
a fact that any manufacturer out there recognizes the benefit of
getting their products on their web sites.
Try getting NXP (ex Philips) to understand that ;-(
For chips that actually exist you can find its full specifications,
application notes, and if it has a complex or difficult implementation
it will have a reference design that some application engineer put
together. And of course you find news like when samples will be
available and when production will commence.
Again, it very much depends on your choice of vendor; some have websites
that are truly impenetrable. I find myself going first to
datasheetarchive.com
nowadays. And when I design with 'mature' devices, I can forget most
manufacturer's
websites as a first choice; the chips 'exist'; it is just that the vendor
has chosen to make using them difficult.
In my previous post I was bemoaning the elimination of mature software,
manuals
and datasheets that cost very little to host, which seems to be the result
of company business decisions and ownership changes, and also the loss
of many
private sites that used to mirror such materials -- gone for undocumented
reasons. As to new announcements, I used to get some 80 trade journals per
month (the bingo-card renewal process took a lot of time) and found that
I was better informed with the mass of paper than I have ever been on the
'net.
Michael
What worthy trade mags still lack an electronic edition?
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