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Datasheets and avoiding time wasting sites
T3sl4co1l:
For old parts, datasheetcatalog and datasheets360 seem to turn up often enough.
Note that catalog's PDFs turn up often enough, but you end up getting served a link to the search page, not the PDF. Back out and click it again, it's only PDF from self-referral or cookie or something.
I don't think any are free of tracking/ads/"big data" kruft. I used to like datasheetarchive but they went full suck with ads. Boycott 'em.
Tim
kripton2035:
I often end up with octopart to find a datasheet, and the availability of a chip. (even the best price)
Doctorandus_P:
For some time I've used octopart just for the datasheets.
As everything in life, it's not perfect, but it is a lot better than those datasheet collecton sites which are optimised for catching mouse clicks and also corrup the datasheets.
Octopart works also more direct than more general search engines.
Lately octopart results unfortunately gets peppered more and more by unrelated sponsored components, mostly from Ti it seems, and octopart has removed direct links (or cached?) Ti datasheets.
Once you know the manufacturer of a particular chip you can also go directly to the manufacturer, but that is not always clear with all the mergers of the last decades.
If you want broadcom datasheets my suggestion is to switch jobs and do some gardening instead.
amyk:
I find alldatasheet.com turns up frequently in the search results and has a lot of actual datasheets too.
RoGeorge:
If the parts are not obsolete, big vendors like Mouser or Digikey, apart from price/stock, have links to the product's pdf datasheet, too.
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