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Re: What's the most exotic part you found at a non-specialist distributor
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2023, 07:32:55 pm »
Looks like a SMD form of the flux capacitor.
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Re: What's the most exotic part you found at a non-specialist distributor
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2023, 03:03:17 am »
I've used those before for a previous project.  ;D
 
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Re: What's the most exotic part you found at a non-specialist distributor
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2023, 03:37:50 am »
Forgot the part number but the most unusual part I specified into a design was a chip that emulated a switch matrix. With a SPI command, any pin of port X can be connected/disconnected to any pin of port Y, and multiple such connections can be made at once. Not surprisingly, it was for a test jig to test the keyboard input functionality of an embedded processor.
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Re: What's the most exotic part you found at a non-specialist distributor
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2023, 01:40:44 pm »
I've used those before for a previous project.  ;D

Sweet! Plus it needs to be wire bonded according to the datasheet? You did that? Or some sort of tiny solder job?
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Re: What's the most exotic part you found at a non-specialist distributor
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2023, 03:55:20 am »
I've used those before for a previous project.  ;D

Sweet! Plus it needs to be wire bonded according to the datasheet? You did that? Or some sort of tiny solder job?

Another person did the wire bonding. I did some of the layout. It was for a medical sensor project using an UWB transceiver.
 


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