Your favorite 10 analog IC's

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Louis Levin

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Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis
 
Hello Louis,

LM324
LM339
TLV431
LM3478
AD603
SD5400 or similar arrays
CD4053
CD4066
CD4007UB
74HCU04

Ok, the last two sound rather digital but they are very handy in analog
apps. However, to be truthful here I design a lot of circuitry with
discretes. Mostly that is for cost or performance reasons.

So if you had asked for favorite parts instead the list would ramble on
with BSS123, 2907, BFS17, BAV99 and so on.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
 
"Louis Levin" <loulev@arcotech.com> wrote

10 analog IC's?
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None of them are glamorous. The janitors of the analog world.
You can live without the CEO, but with no janitor the company's
doomed.

LM324 - op-amp family
LM393 - comparator family
LM29xx - LDO voltage regulator family
AD654 - V/F
ICL7611 - CMOS op-amp family
4051 - CMOS mux family

The rest are application specific, rarely used more than
once or twice.

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer: Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
To reply, remove spaces: n o lindan at ix . netcom . com
psst.. want to buy an f-stop timer? nolindan.com/da/fstop/
 
By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design
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Hmm, it's not really an all-purpuse chip, but I've been having lots of
fun with an AD9951 DDS chip lately. If I tried to do this with
small-scale chips I'd end up with a humoungous PCB filled with many
dozens of chips and it wouldn't perform one tenth as well (maybe one
hundredth as well) as this magic little chip.

More generically: NE555, LM324, TL084, CA3046, CD4007, ULN2803, LM317.

Tim.
 
Hello Tim,

More generically: NE555, LM324, TL084, CA3046, CD4007, ULN2803, LM317.
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Nice mix. The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs around 40 cents instead of
the usual 20. Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing. Sounds too
much like "transistor array emeritus".

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
 
Louis Levin wrote:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis
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PIC12F675 (with a/d) along with MCP41010 (10k programable potientiometer
used a d/a) - then do everything in software.

--
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
"The future is not what it used to be..."
http://members.cox.net/berniekm
 
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:33:35 +1100, Louis Levin <loulev@arcotech.com>
wrote:

Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis
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LM1117 ldo reg

LM45 temperature sensor

LM8261 c-load opamp

AD8014 fast opamp

LM7301 gp sot-23 opamp

SN65LVDS2DBVB lvds line receiver

ADCMP565 comparator

MC10EL89 semi-analog ECL thing

ERA-5 mmic

HMC465LP5 amp, except that it costs $185 each



Am I only allowed 10?

John
 
"Louis Levin" <loulev@arcotech.com> wrote in message
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Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis
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LM393:TL084:SA602:TSH94:FST3125:MCP3202:74HC132:74HC4060:74HC14:MC34152.
Wishful thought ... One day I'll be free to use something costing more than
a few coppers and not in the Farnell catalogue :)
regards
john
 
This is Louis Levin for forever:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.
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I like stuffs like the 555 timer (such as NE555), LM317, LM324, LM339,
and regulators like the 78xx series (rather useful).

Also I like 74xx logic IC's but they aren't exactly analog.

[]s
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/ 51.11° W / GMT-2h / 15m .

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I say, I'm in a rock band and I can do what the hell I want!"
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Gotta put a word in for the AD633 analog X-er. Don't use it often, but it
does what it does really well.
Funny how when i think of the really nifty chips, AD crops up again and
again - things like the AD75019 patchbay on a chip, AD98xx DDS's, SSM2018
VCA etc etc.
Must have some awfully brainy people in Norwood, MA.
M
 
Louis Levin wrote:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.
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I find it odd that nobody has mentioned the 4046 phase-locked loop.
A very handy gadget - the Philips 74HCT9046 is one of the more
impressive variants of RCA's original design, which was in turn a
spectacular improvement on Jim's MC4024/MC4044 combination which I
first used back in 1972.

--------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
 
The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs
around 40 cents instead of the usual 20.
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It's been years since I saw NatSemi CA3046's for sale. All the ones I
get are Intersil now. The only catalog house that has them is Allied.

Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing.
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Well, both Intersil and Allied are past mature, they're just plain
senile.

Tim.
 
Ken Smith wrote:

The "zero power" version on the 22V10 like TICPAL22V10Z is handy in
battery powered stuff.

Now *that* is a good digital catch-all.
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Mike Diack wrote:
Gotta put a word in for the AD633 analog X-er. Don't use it often,
but it
does what it does really well.
Funny how when i think of the really nifty chips, AD crops up again
and
again - things like the AD75019 patchbay on a chip, AD98xx DDS's,
SSM2018
VCA etc etc.
Must have some awfully brainy people in Norwood, MA.
M
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Barry Gilbert comes to mind. Google for "Barry Gilbert" with "Analog
Devices" and you get some interesting hits. Jim Thompson is proud of
the analog multiplier he did for Motorola, but Barry Gilbert is the guy
who got it right, amongst a wide variety of other spectacular
successes.

-------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
 
In article <834511hlimdcuohjkcebb0ghnu2ob8bnmh@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:02:48 GMT, Joerg
notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:

Hello Tim,

More generically: NE555, LM324, TL084, CA3046, CD4007, ULN2803, LM317.



Nice mix. The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs around 40 cents instead of
the usual 20. Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing. Sounds too
much like "transistor array emeritus".

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

My favorites: Make your own circuit on TSMC, X-Fab, PolarFab, AMS,
AMI, Atmel, IBM, etc ;-)
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Good idea, but please do bring a bucket of money. ;-)

--
Keith
 
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:12:38 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

Ken Smith wrote:


The "zero power" version on the 22V10 like TICPAL22V10Z is handy in
battery powered stuff.

Now *that* is a good digital catch-all.
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The Xilinx Coolrunner flash CPLDs (and similar) are the next gen of
this sort of thing. The smallest ones are something like 4x the logic
of a a 22V10, have a more general architecture, and cost something
like $1.20. They are surface-mount and have to be programmed on-board,
which can be a small nuisance.

John
 
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:29:25 -0500, Keith Williams <krw@att.bizzzz
wrote:


In article <pv7511lnjth992deqldk1i47sq0msjns59@4ax.com>,
thegreatone@example.com says...

[snip]

My all-time best sellers: 1488, 1489

Still get residuals?


No :-(

I was just a 24 year old kid when I designed those, and I thought that
designing was just for fun and that Motorola would always take care of
me ;-)
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So knowing what you know now, would you recommend that a kid start at
$50K a year (or whatever they make fresh out of school these days) with
the usual terms, or $40K + residuals? Do you think they'd take the cut
in pay for the future money, or jump on the early gravy train?

--

Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
 
Some call the CA part "mature",
an expression that gives me goose pimples
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Well, whadya know, Intersil just put it on "to be discontinued". My
(our) bad luck!

Tim.
 
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:45:16 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:


If you've never been fired for insubordination, you've not lived. I
got fired from Dickson Electronics (a hybrid house) for redirecting
their business plan from heavily military to a mix between military
and commercial... showing a healthy profit in the process. They went
bust about two years after they fired me and sold out to Siemens. I
think that's even gone now.
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I've always taken a peverse pleasure in dancing on the grave of a
company that tooled one around or ignored one's genius. I applaud the
deaths of Metricom, Synergistic Controls, Westover, and a certain
I**** who I can't yet name because of anti-defamation clauses in legal
settlements.

John
 
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