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A Database of IC Chip Pin Outs

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ThermallyFrigid:
Does a database of IC chip Pin Outs exist that would allow you to find IC chips with certain pin outs or pin outs that match or nearly match other IC chips?

Would that even be feasible?

ThermallyFrigid:
Why not just use the commonly available manufacturers DataSheet ?

Maybe we have different end goals in mind?
I was just thinking if a database created by users like you and I.
At a dedicated website where you have a unique account and after logging in, you can search for or input the PinOut information from the Datasheet.

You could search for example by simply entering any combination of pins and their values and all IC chips matching whatever you enter would be displayed along with links to their respective PinOuts.

I honestly don't even know if there would be any value in such a database.  Maybe not.

Two things brought me to think about it.
1). Chips with the ID information shaved off the Chip
2). Finding IC chips with similar or identical PinOuts.

As an IT person all my life, I could easily set this up and make it publicly available.  I just don't know if there would be any interest or value in it
I would be more than happy to take recommendations on how it might work.   Free.  No charges at all.   Just hope for contributions in the form of entering data on IC chips.

Again, I realize this could be a really worthless idea.



ThermallyFrigid:
Apparently.......

Not a very popular idea.

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Sandbank5961:
Sorry to be late here.

Yes, I think it can help some of us, electronics engineers with such a tool. I have been thinking about it for at least a year now. Some pins may have different names under different manufactures, such as IN vs VIN or ENABLE vs /SHUTDOWN (not shutdown) vs /STANDBY...
My use case would be to look for alternative/cross parts...

It could be provided as a webservice or as a python script/CLI/interface. In any case, I think it should be opensourced from the beginning, and be easily self hosted.

There are some opensource libraries from which we could probably extract this info:

Sparkfun:
https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun-Eagle-Libraries

Adafruit:
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Eagle-Library

Seeedstudio:
https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/OPL_Kicad_Library
https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/OPL_Eagle_Library

digikey:
https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-kicad-library
https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-partner-kicad-library

kicad:
https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-symbols
https://gitlab.com/kicad/libraries/kicad-footprints

Element14:
https://community.element14.com/products/eagle/

tooki:
It seems to me that rather than deconstructing KiCad footprints, the entities that could do this kind of thing are the already-existing databases of footprint data: the cross-platform footprint companies (Ultra Librarian, SnapEDA, and SamacSys). They already have structured footprint data and export it to the various formats as needed. It’d probably be comparatively simple for them to add some kind of search.

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