Here's a brief analysis I thought I'd share with you. (My first post here, so be gentle.)
I ran the MiniPro device list thru Excel and sliced-and-diced the data a bit.
I was mainly interested in how many
unique devices were
really supported.
So regardless of manufacturer or package type, each listed device was reduced to the industry standard part number.
Then the number of devices in the MiniPro list that map to that industry standard list was totaled.
And then the entire list was sorted based on most popular to least.
For example, the single part with the most number of manufacturers and packaging implementations is the serial 9346 eeprom.
Of the total number of parts in the 13137 long MiniPro list, the 9346 serial eeprom accounts for 524 of those parts....about 4%.
If you include the top three parts on the list (9345, 9356, 9366.
.. all serial eeproms) all possible manufacturers and packaging options account for 1354 of the 13137 listed MiniPro parts. Three parts account for over 10%!
The attached graph shows the cumulative effect of how a few parts dominate the MiniPro list.
Further, note how list is inflated by the number of Serial eeProm entires.Here's part of the list.
This shows that of the 1044 unique industry part numbers in the MiniPro list of 13137, that only 34 of 1044 unique parts are needed to account for 50% (6579 entries) of MiniPro's 13137 entries .
The graph shows that only 157 devices are needed to account for 10003 of the 13137 entries.
part count rank cumulative pcnt
9346 524 1 524 4
9356 415 2 939 7
9366 415 3 1354 10
2402 331 4 1685 13
2408 305 5 1990 15
2404 304 6 2294 17
2416 301 7 2595 20
9386 290 8 2885 22
29800 268 9 3153 24
29400 244 10 3397 26
29002 226 11 3623 28
2401 184 12 3807 29
9376 184 13 3991 30
2432 183 14 4174 32
2464 176 15 4350 33
24256 150 16 4500 34
2516 149 17 4649 35
27256 142 18 4791 36
27010 141 19 4932 38
29040 135 20 5067 39
27512 133 21 5200 40
24128 131 22 5331 41
29200 124 23 5455 42
2532 120 24 5575 42
49002 116 25 5691 43
2864 112 26 5803 44
25040 105 27 5908 45
29160 104 28 6012 46
74 102 29 6114 47
25512 100 30 6214 47
2580 94 31 6308 48
25080 91 32 6399 49
25020 90 33 6489 49
2540 90 34 6579 50
27020 89 35 6668 51
. . . . .
252005 11 157 10003 76
. . . . .
628512 1 1041 13134 100
8956 1 1042 13135 100
9310 1 1043 13136 100
9395 1 1044 13137 100
The second part of the analysis placed each of the 13137 listed parts into 1 of 40 part series.
This makes it clear how a few predominate serial eeprom families along with the 29-series flash, and 27-series UV eproms account for the vast majority of the MiniPro's repertoire.
Here's the report sorted by family:
TOTAL 13137
family count
1 14000 CMOS 30
2 24 Series 2525
3 25 Series 1925
4 26 Series 42
5 27 Series 941
6 28 Series 757
7 29 Series 2466
8 35 Series 12
9 36 Series 4
10 37 Series 12
11 39 Series 165
12 4000 CMOS 34
13 45 Series 15
14 49 Series 462
15 54 Series 4
16 57 Series 8
17 58 Series 26
18 59 Series 72
19 61 Series 4
20 7400 Series 102
21 87 Series 76
22 89 Series 102
23 90 Series 19
24 93 Series 1993
25 ATMEGA 59
26 ATTINY 66
27 DS12 Series 19
28 GAL Series 24
29 PIC Series 910
30 STM35 Series 8
31 STM50 Series 60
32 STM95 Series 89
33 BR90 Series 21
34 BR95 Series 10
35 PCF Series 5
36 SM39 Series 5
37 SM79 Series 8
38 SM89 Series 28
39 W78 Series 20
40 uncategorized 9