Re: hefty data sheet

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:37:55 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

On 3/16/25 10:27, Martin Brown wrote:

On 15/03/2025 19:39, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:56:25 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 3/14/2025 6:34 PM, john larkin wrote:

https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/spruim2
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That's 10419 pages. Has anyone seen a bigger data sheet?
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And what's a spruim?
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I need a printed copy to put on someone's desk when they says "8 bit is
obsolete, just use an ARM"

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If you print on both sides, the stack will be about 2 feet high.
Better buy some toner things.

 
Perhaps they are trying for the Guinness Book of Records?
Longest meaningless datasheet.
 

It would take an army of engineers to use a chip like that. That would
need a giant market.

 
I think there is a lot of duplication from a (very) quick scan.
IOW the authors were paid by the word.
 

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Don't you guys simply look for another chip if the manual is
too much to digest?
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I would.
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Jeroen Belleman
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That part was recommended to me by our TI rep. I have no interest in
even reading the manual, much less trying to design something with it.

I like simple, like an RP2040 and an Efinix T20.