Comments on: Online chip reference trims the fat

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:18:02 +0000

Damn, I wish they’d show the feature size (i.e. process geometry).

By: Michiel145

Michiel145 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:02:03 +0000

Only PIC from the 16F series they know is the PIC16F84A…. :|

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:19:46 +0000

If you want to keep it maximally useful for hobbyists and professionals alike, have some conditions for inclusion. As an example, at least two of:

1. More than 1000 in stock at Mouser or Digi-Key at any given time

2. Available in through-hole

3. Second-source available

That would limit things pretty well to common, readily available parts.

Otherwise, get ready for scope creep until you’re competing with Octopart.

By: le'chef

le'chef — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:54:54 +0000

Neat.
Must agree with earlier posters,
offline J2ME version would be great!

By: maxpowa

maxpowa — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:51:29 +0000

i always use http://www.findchips.com/
go to any reseller and grab the pdf

By: matt

matt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:41:13 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! (I’m the author, btw) For those who’d like to make an iPhone app or use the data in some other way, I can code up an API that vends the raw part data. It’s stored as YAML, so you’d need a parsing library for Objective-C. Look for it in the future!

By: kuhl

kuhl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:27:29 +0000

bookmarked

By: Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:07:12 +0000

Thanks for this, I always get confused about which end is W1 and which is W2 – http://www.msarnoff.org/chipdb/WIRE :-)

I was thinking of hacking something together a little J2ME app for my phone to do this the other day but gave up when I thought about the amount of effort involved in converting all of the data sheets. I wonder if they’ll allow the underlying data to be exported so it could be used in other tools?

By: CaliRaisin

CaliRaisin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:07:00 +0000

There is even a pin-out for a piece of wire, very handy stuff!

Sarcasm aside, this is a great idea, just needs some time to grow…

By: CH

CH — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:54:32 +0000

This would be better as an online component DB with some kind of API so softwares could get data from it automatically.

By: jeff-o

jeff-o — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:45:07 +0000

Once expanded a bit more, this would make a great iPhone/iPod Touch app.

By: XD

XD — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:28:46 +0000

well,I think its sounds great.
So All parts I got datasheets for are getting in there.

so someday, when I find this rare ic I still can find a pinout or datasheet. thx to a 13 year old kid from mars… XD

By: macegr

macegr — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:28:32 +0000

This is kind of a CSS redo of the GIICM from way back in the early 90′s, basically as soon as the Web existed, people were building pinout lists. I definitely want to see this get more popular, it’s a pain to load a 400-page PDF every time you want to check a pinout of a chip. I do agree that it should be used for the most common chips, not every esoteric IC that four or five people would ever use for hobby electronics.

By: ProblemChild

ProblemChild — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:20:17 +0000

I normally don’t like negative posts. But I hope that they get a lot more data in there before long otherwise unless you are an Arduino nut there isn’t that much in there !