On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
I am talking about microcontrollers, not desktop
computer CPUs...
Have you looked at some of the high-end microcontrollers lately?
Err no. At one time we had these wonderful things called 'data
books' I'd
flip through them to see what chips were available, their featurs,
etc. I
bought a lot of said books.
You can do that on their websites, without killing trees. (not
that I care personally, but..) The searching and browsing
capabilities of some of the manufacturers' websites are getting
better every year.
And now, I can get datasheets for pretty much any random component
in seconds, rather than having to wait for weeks to find a copy of a
databook that I don't have. I have nearly three thousand PDF
datasheets now, and those are just for parts that I've been
interested in for one reason or another. (curiosity, repair, use in
new design, found a chip somewhere and wanted to know what it is,
etc) I have about 35-40 databooks, and now I have FAR more useful
information available to me then when I used to use those databooks
regularly.
Not all change is automatically bad.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL