Why do people have online data sheet files called media.pdf or mfr.pdf ?
Why does TI have app notes and eval board manuals like sluubo1.pdf?
Why do I have to fill out a form to see a data sheet or an online magazine? It's easier to not.
Why are a lot of Digikey's datasheet links broken or useless?
Why do some data sheets not even name the manufacturer?
"The easiest thing in the world is not to sell'"
- Melvin Goldstein
A lot of mfrs don't want anyone distributing their data sheets for them, hence the links or altered forms. Copyright or rev/doc control issues?
Docs for north american market aren't a priority, when 80% of product is designed, made (and repaired?)off-shore.
Publications? $ or lack of.
I've had EDN and EPD reps on the phone three times in seven days, verifying mailing address, though they haven't delivered a hard copy to any of my addresses in the last 30yrs. Everyone else and their dog got one. Boohoohoo.
You figure they'd be able to recognize a return from direct email solicitation and just cough up the article. Could be the browser, but hey . . . .
Bodo Power keeps re-publishing stuff with illegible illustrations. You have to ask for a 'good' one.
RL
Hey there's an idea for an AI/large language model amenable task, a data sheet-renamer.
LLMs can be pretty good at generating summaries of text, seems like it should be possible to train one on some app notes to generate summaries pithy enough for a file name.
Sometimes it might be able to just pull from document titles, but an auto-categorizer could be a helpful feature, also
They also seem to like to host them on the slowest servers imaginable and still use FTP like it's the 90s.
gopher would work better.
I always notice that. I asked Bodo and they said just ask for the legible drawing. Makes a larger file I'm sure
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