Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>> >>
>>> David DiGiacomo wrote:
>>>> >>>>> Might be. Specsmanship has gone down the drain quite a bit from when I
>>>>> started out into serious electronics design.
>>>> That word doesn't mean what you think it means:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Hmm, interesting. At most companies I dealt with it is used that way
>>> though (mostly central/western US, no idea how it is elsewhere).
>>
>> The Wikipedia entry matches my usage of the word pretty much exactly.
>> For example, stating a "repeatability" specification in large print
>> while the actual accuracy specification is elsewhere in small print
>> and you have to add several error terms to *that* number to get the
>> actual worst-case error.
>>
>
>Aha, thanks. Nowadays it's more like that they claim low noise and then
>there isn't any noise spec at all in the datasheet.
I hate the magazine ads for ICs that say "low cost" or "high speed" or "low power" and have no numbers.
John