Re: Datasheet-flation?

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 16:53:48 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
<cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 07:38:16 -0800, john larkin wrote:
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On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:50:54 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
wrote:
 

The data "sheet" for the new processor I'm using is ~16,000 pages.
(note carefully the position of the comma separator)
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This is getting ridiculous.  I thought 2,000 page datasheets were over
the top, but this one is a personal record!  <frown>

 
On the other hand, data sheet quality is generally going down.

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Not just datasheets, but app notes and textbooks as well. They were all
far, far clearer and better-written decades ago compared with today. I
suspect it's perhaps due to the schools not teaching formal English
grammar any more.

The grammar is occasionally bad, but the technical content is worse.

I'm thinking that designers must be kept designing, so data sheet
writers and app engineers are not designers, and are directed to
minimally annoy them.

I just got a good, fast response from TI, about over-driving the input
of an ADS7052 ADC. I expected them to say "don't exceed the abs max
input voltage of Vcc+0.3" but I got a more intelligent response. I was
shocked.

In past times all sorts of chips would get weird if you pumped a
little current into their ESD diodes, or latched up and fried, but
that is rare now, thank Goodness.