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eric

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Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's. I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!
 
"eric"
Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from the
major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of the
chips made by that manufacture.
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** IC makers stopped printing those kind of books many years ago.

They were normally given away to customers and potential customers.


Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
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** Dream on.

I see a few sites offering to sell used copies of such books from the 80s
and 90s.


..... Phil
 
eric wrote:
Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands
of the chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Click to expand...
Not really.
They are all seperate datasheets, it's just easier that way and saves
bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you need
it.
Smart cookies would be able to write a script to leech an entire site of
every PDF, but that's pretty drastic.
Doesn't help when some manufacturers don't name their PDF files sensibly,
like "AGHS275.PDF" when it's actually a 74HC00 etc. Really annoying.

Before the Web there used to be companies that supplied (usually as a rental
thing) massive CD sets (like hundreds of) of almost every datasheet
imaginable. Well heeled companies would have this in a special corner on
it's own machine and you took your turn at the oracle. Type the number or
parameter into the search engine and it said "Please insert Disk #251" :->

Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places
like alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable
internet connection,
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Get that fixed, seriously.
Hard to do serious engineering without a good internet connection.

so I would like to be able to just download a
catalog of the most important / common ic's.
Click to expand...
You could argue there isn't such a thing these days.
Maybe for hobby use still, if so get yourself some old paper databooks. Got
to be people out there still throwing them out.
One for 7400 series, one for 4000 series, and a couple of general analog
ones (National are the classics).
Many of us kept a few of these key databooks when we threw out or gave away
our collection of books when the web and PDF came along.

Jaycar have a smallish collection here, but seperate files as usual:
https://secure.vividcluster.crox.net.au/jaycar2005/semiconductor.asp

Good luck.

Dave.

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David L. Jones wrote:
eric wrote:
Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks
from the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on
hundreds/thousands of the chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.

Not really.
They are all seperate datasheets, it's just easier that way and saves
bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you
need it.
Smart cookies would be able to write a script to leech an entire site
of every PDF, but that's pretty drastic.
Doesn't help when some manufacturers don't name their PDF files
sensibly, like "AGHS275.PDF" when it's actually a 74HC00 etc. Really
annoying.
Before the Web there used to be companies that supplied (usually as a
rental thing) massive CD sets (like hundreds of) of almost every
datasheet imaginable. Well heeled companies would have this in a
special corner on it's own machine and you took your turn at the
oracle. Type the number or parameter into the search engine and it
said "Please insert Disk #251" :-
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places
like alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable
internet connection,

Get that fixed, seriously.
Hard to do serious engineering without a good internet connection.

so I would like to be able to just download a
catalog of the most important / common ic's.

You could argue there isn't such a thing these days.
Maybe for hobby use still, if so get yourself some old paper
databooks. Got to be people out there still throwing them out.
One for 7400 series, one for 4000 series, and a couple of general
analog ones (National are the classics).
Many of us kept a few of these key databooks when we threw out or
gave away our collection of books when the web and PDF came along.
Click to expand...
People still sell'em on ebay by the looks of it.

Dave.

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Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast:
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:57:43 -0400, eric <harrytuttle777@mac.com> wrote:

Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's. I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.
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http://www.maxipub.com/electro/databooks.html seems to have quite a
selection of used databooks.

TI has the pdf version of their TTL Logic Databook available
http://focus.ti.com.cn/cn/lit/ug/scyd013b/scyd013b.pdf

Otherwise, it may work best to simply use the web as your catalog and
then save the datasheets that you want to have handy in some organized
fashion.

The One Big Directory approach doesn't work very well -- trust me on
this ;-)

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
"eric" <harrytuttle777@mac.com> wrote in message
news:h4tc1v02v05@news5.nntpjunkie.com...
Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from the
major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of the
chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's. I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!
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Whenever you find a data sheet its worth backspacing the URL to see if the
site allows access to the folders, some don't but you soon get to remember
which ones they are.

When you find a fat juicy folder bulging with data sheets, you can rip it
with a download manager like DAP from Speedbit, this adds your "select all"
selection to a queue - some files support resume so if your connection fails
you can resume the download later when your connection recovers.

Sometimes if I find a particularly good datashet hoard I post the link for
others to use but all that I have recently seem to have expired.

Here's a couple to get you started:


http://pe2bz.philpem.me.uk/pdf%20on%20typenumber/

http://www.classiccmp.org/rtellason/
 
On Jul 31, 8:57 am, eric <harrytuttle...@mac.com> wrote:
Hello!

   Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

   Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs..
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, orwww.datasheet4u.com.  I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's.  I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!
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eric,

Um... I have a couple of suggestions.

Manufacturers like Texas Instruments have whole programs set up to get
designers to use their components, and this includes data books, white
papers, & etc. in their design support department. Here's a link to
TI's site:

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/dsnsuprt.tsp?DCMP=TIHomeTracking&HQS=Other+OT+home_d_allsupport


For companies that specialize in a family of logics or components, the
problem is that electronics logic families evolve fairly quickly (at
the data book design level), and so it's expensive for them to reprint
their entire lines bench data every couple of years. This said, when
fairly novel logics are introduced as a new "family", the manufacturer
will print up their lines data-books for the wholesale distributors...
these aren't likely to be current, but do you really need the latest
greatest version? If not, the wholesalers always have extra data-
books they'll give you if you place a reasonable order with them.

Lastly... if you download a program like Blue Crab, you can use that
to download everything below a particular sites url, including the PDF
bins (although it'll probably take a night or two if your connection
is slow). Frankly, I think you're better off just getting a huge
catalog (try www.jameco.com) and then using that to reference the
component types and numbers you actually want.

Good Luck,

Grouchy
 
In article <h4tc1v02v05@news5.nntpjunkie.com>,
eric <harrytuttle777@mac.com> wrote:
Hello!

Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs.
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, or www.datasheet4u.com. I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's. I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!
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When you get to a semiconductor company web site, one buzzword to search
for is 'Selector Guide', an abbreviated catalog, usually sorted by device
families. (They might even still print them on paper). At least with
the part number, you can search for the datasheet.

Mark Zenier mzenier@eskimo.com
Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)
 
On Jul 30, 11:59 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
eric wrote:

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands
of the chips made by that manufacture.

They are all seperate datasheets, it's just easier that way and saves
bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you
need
it.
Click to expand...
Compartmentalization of large companies has led to the sales
staff (somewhat nontechnical folk) maintaining the datasheets
as web downloads. So, there's no chapter-on-instrument-amplifiers
book, just a home page and (maybe) a selection guide.

It's "just easier" for the sales folk, it's dreadful for designers.
I print out datasheets and put 'em in some kind of order in
3-ring binders. And I've got a card catalog with pinouts
(pull out the appropriate 3x5 cards whenever I want to
wirewrap up a small circuit - saves LOTS of time).

Some kinds of tasks are easier on the new system, but not
many. And, things that go obsolete VANISH from all data
repositories when the sales force no longer has 'em for sale;
remember those three-terminal current mirrors from TI?
You better remember, they don't show up on searches now!
 
Thanks for all the information. It at least got me pointed in the right
direction, and prevented me from looking for information that was not there.



-Thanks
-Eric
 
whit3rd wrote:
On Jul 30, 11:59 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
eric wrote:

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks
from the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on
hundreds/thousands
of the chips made by that manufacture.

They are all seperate datasheets, it's just easier that way and saves
bandwidth and storage space etc. Only downlod what you need when you
need
it.

Compartmentalization of large companies has led to the sales
staff (somewhat nontechnical folk) maintaining the datasheets
as web downloads. So, there's no chapter-on-instrument-amplifiers
book, just a home page and (maybe) a selection guide.

It's "just easier" for the sales folk, it's dreadful for designers.
I print out datasheets and put 'em in some kind of order in
3-ring binders. And I've got a card catalog with pinouts
(pull out the appropriate 3x5 cards whenever I want to
wirewrap up a small circuit - saves LOTS of time).
Click to expand...
I rarely print out datasheets, or even save them most of the time. If I do
print, it's almost never the full thing, just the pinout page usually. And
as I have 3 monitors at work (2 portrait, 1 landscape), it's easy to keep
the datasheet on one screen and work on the other screens.
Usually just as quick to search and download them again as needed. Although
we attach PDF datahsheets to all our EDA library components which saves a
bit of time searching.
Printouts are still handy for when in the lab building/troubleshooting
though.

Dave.
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On Jul 30, 7:57 pm, eric <harrytuttle...@mac.com> wrote:
Hello!

   Sorry if this has already been asked ad naseum, but here goes.

When i was a little, my father used to have these large databooks from
the major ic manufacturs, that listed the specs on hundreds/thousands of
the chips made by that manufacture.

   Does anyone know where I can download these complete chip catalogs..
Today I can only find individual datasheets on the web from places like
alldatasheet.com, orwww.datasheet4u.com.  I have an unreliable internet
connection, so I would like to be able to just download a catalog of the
most important / common ic's.  I have tried some of the manufactures
websites, but they seem to want you to just download one sheet, rather
then the whole catalog.

-Thanks for any help / advice you can give.

-Yes I have tried google.

Thanks again!
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National Semi sent me a Linear catalog a few years ago. I'm not quite
sure how I got it. I clicked on some box most likely. I'd try the
manufacturers web sites and not data-sheet sites.

George H.
 
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