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Trouble getting full datasheet for an IC being sold on Mouser/Digikey
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wraper:

--- Quote from: zitt on May 29, 2019, 10:26:52 pm ---Personally; if a company hides their full datasheet behind a "contact us"-wall - they get nixed from the design right away.
Simply put; if they can't offer free, open full datasheets because they are worried about copy-cats or whatever, then they have lost the right to earn my business.

There has only been a few companies that I've even seen put their data sheets behind some password protected website. Those companies deserve to loose my business.

--- End quote ---
Most of the companies have some products with datasheets available only under NDA. The question is only how many and if you stumble on those parts.
ptricks:
Analog devices has HDMI chips that don't require NDA.
ADV7850 does analog,scaling and hdmi output
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADV7850.pdf
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: zitt on May 29, 2019, 10:26:52 pm ---There has only been a few companies that I've even seen put their data sheets behind some password protected website. Those companies deserve to loose my business.

--- End quote ---

They don't care if they lose your business.

Don't you get it? They don't want your business. The first question they ask is, "Do you have the capital to make 500,000 units per year?" And since you don't, they aren't interested.
zitt:

--- Quote from: Bassman59 on May 31, 2019, 05:49:55 pm ---
--- Quote from: zitt on May 29, 2019, 10:26:52 pm ---There has only been a few companies that I've even seen put their data sheets behind some password protected website. Those companies deserve to loose my business.

--- End quote ---

They don't care if they lose your business.

Don't you get it? They don't want your business. The first question they ask is, "Do you have the capital to make 500,000 units per year?" And since you don't, they aren't interested.

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I'm sure you're just trying to make a point. But it did come off as rather "who cares"
Can you imagine if ATMEL would have decided to put their data sheets behind a paywall / NDA? Do you think Arduino would exist?
Simply put; I do care they they don't want my business.
Maybe you represent one of those companies; maybe you don't. But if Intel can provide datasheets for their CPUs when they only sell to OEMS with capital to make 500,000 units per year; then... screw those companies that are "higher than thou."
ptricks:

--- Quote from: zitt on June 04, 2019, 10:21:01 pm ---But if Intel can provide datasheets for their CPUs when they only sell to OEMS with capital to make 500,000 units per year; then... screw those companies that are "higher than thou."

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Most companies are fairly open now about datasheets , the ones that are not are are usually the ones that are security related.
A good example is broadcom , nothing really useful can be obtained from them without NDA because they make chispets for cable and satellite and those are targets of rampant hacking.
I was glad to see microchip purchase atmel because microchip has always been extremely helpful with data for decades.
I worry about the purchase of cypress by micron because micron has been less than helpful in the past with data.
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