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Billy?

Sounds like something from Ikea.

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Phil Hobbs

There is an Ikea "Billy" bookcase. We've got six of them across one wall of our living room, all full of books. Electronic engineers used to need about two of them for their data books, but web-accessible .pdf files have rescued us from that.

I still have a few dozen databooks. The quaklity of datasheets goes nowhere but down, and having the old ones available helps.

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Phil Hobbs

The older discrete semiconductor books are great. They have actual numbers and graphs and stuff.

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I dumped all of mine, except the rev-2 TI mustard bible. Datasheets that old (enough to be in a databook) won't do me any good anyway. I do keep all revisions of .PDFs, though.

That's Ikea's most popular product.

Where else can you get breakfast for $1?

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

IF you could keep your intellectual property from being freely distributed, there's a business characterizing products and producing all these graphs and data that you wish the manufacturers would provide. The money would be to get paid by the manufacturers, but then...

Mikek

I recall some years ago there was a company that was doing just that for simulation models of semiconductors, but on the digital side. I recall that they were getting paid by the semi makers, the software providers and the engineering companies, all three. It makes some sense that as long as the prices were reasonable it is in everyone's best interest to have one company doing this and not a competitive market.

It was doing well for a few years, but seems to be gone now. I'm not sure what happened so that it was no longer viable. I guess the technology became so wide spread and cost effective that all the semi companies just took it on themselves. Or maybe the market dried up. Other than FPGAs, I can't think of any digital chips that get simulated now... I mean by the end user after they are designed.

A library on shelves? It must be an awful lot of data to need more than one flash drive... I guess you are talking a non-technical library?

I've switched my loyalty to Ikeda.

Yes, paid by the manufacturers, then how bad do they want to print the noise graph with the noise peak in the wrong place or an odd delay characteristic. Or, how many times are you going to criticize your customers product and keep there business. I just see a small conflict there. Mikek