Post by leggPost by john larkinWhy do people have online data sheet files called media.pdf or
mfr.pdf ?
Why does TI have app notes and eval board manuals like sluubo1.pdf?
Why do I have to fill out a form to see a data sheet or an online
magazine? It's easier to not.
Why are a lot of Digikey's datasheet links broken or useless?
Why do some data sheets not even name the manufacturer?
"The easiest thing in the world is not to sell'"
- Melvin Goldstein
A lot of mfrs don't want anyone distributing their data sheets
for them, hence the links or altered forms. Copyright or rev/doc
control issues?
Easy not to sell. Another grrrr is data sheets with no rev or date ID.
Post by leggDocs for north american market aren't a priority, when 80% of
product is designed, made (and repaired?)off-shore.
English is pretty much universal for data sheets and appnotes.
Post by leggPublications? $ or lack of.
I've had EDN and EPD reps on the phone three times in seven
days, verifying mailing address, though they haven't delivered
a hard copy to any of my addresses in the last 30yrs.
Everyone else and their dog got one. Boohoohoo.
I haven't ever had a rep call to verify email. Nobody calls about
parts, either.
Post by leggYou figure they'd be able to recognize a return from direct
email solicitation and just cough up the article. Could be
the browser, but hey . . . .
Bodo Power keeps re-publishing stuff with illegible illustrations.
You have to ask for a 'good' one.
RL
Data sheets used to have a regular format, bullet features and a
summary with block diagram first (what IS this thing, anyhow?) and
then abs max, then detailed specs, then appnotes, then mechanical
diagrams. Now the sequence tends to be random.
I hate when a datasheet covers a number of different part numbers but
doesn't exactly tell what the differences are, or how to order which.
I guess semi companies use interns to make data sheets.