XBLW variants of MCP6001/2 opamps

Feb 09, 2025 Last reply: 1 year ago 8 Replies

While hunting for a cheap R-R opamp that's readily available here in India, I came across the MCP6001 and 6002. Unusually for the Indian market, a few sites offer several variants of both single and dual types.



The first three suffix letters stand for temperature range, package and packing but some have the four extra letters XBLW. These variants for both single and dual types cost less than a third of the others (roughly US$0.20 vs $0.75) but I cannot find what the letters stand for. I looked at datasheets from various sources including the latest one from Microchip but couldn't find any reference to this extra suffix.



I assume that the extra letters are not batch or date codes. Chinese copies maybe??


Newark is selling them in the USA for 24 cents at q1.

It looks OK for low-power uses. Lots of offset, lots of noise.

RRIO opamps generally make decent compareators too, and will compare a signal against ground. That one has nice common-mode specs.

Most of them get stable if you hang a big enough cap on the output.

Some numbers specify shipping Q = 1000 to 4000.

RL

It's the letters XBLW I'm concerned about, like MCP6002T-I/SN-XBLW, and why they cost only a fraction of those without the last four letters in single quantities.

Looks like they are “second source “ parts from Xinbole Semiconductors. Could be legit or phoney?

Have you tried purchasing the part? Could be marketing restrictions.

RL

Not yet. I just remembered that I have a small batch of TLV2372 from ~10 years back. Same offset, even worse noise but that doesn't matter for my immediate needs. OTOH the TLV2372 has three times the voltage rating and

3 times the speed - at the cost of a higher supply current. But I'm still curious about the XBLW suffix thing.

It's not made by microchip, the mfg is xinbole.

Cheers

Ah, thanks. Couldn't find it at the Xinbole site though. Tudi Semiconductor - another Shenzen company - has it as TDV600x

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