20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
11:43 a.m.
I know the feeling, but nowadays a datasheet for a
single chip can go to
1200 pages. ( one-chip baseband for mobiles )
But most chip data sheets, fortunately, are a lot thinner.
I am not sure I could repmemenr 1200 pages of data, so I'd want it
printed out so I could refer to it when I was designing (assuming I
needed to use said chip, which I don't...). I would also argue that this
data sheet coupld almost certainly be split up into various sections
(registers, programming model, timing diagrams, pinouts, etc) and some of
those could be sub-divided (A chip this complex almost certainly consists
of many logical sub-systems). And that it might be sensible to have a
separate data sheet for each section.
Many of the 'clasisc' chips that I use have several data sheets
separately covering things like the electical specs (pinouts, timing,
maximum ratings), programming model (regusters, instruction set), ROM
programming info (how to actually get the data into the chip) and so on.
It makes a lot of sense to do it that way.
The internal version of that datasheet goes to 2000
pages.
And that is without the software description....
You really do not want to handle this in paper format.
Well, actually, I don't want to handle it at all, but if I did, I would
certianly awnt it as a book, and not somethign to attempt to read on a
monitor.
-tony