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Your favorite 10 analog IC's

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Louis Levin

Jan 1, 1970
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Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello Louis,

LM324
LM339
TLV431
LM3478
AD603
SD5400 or similar arrays
CD4053
CD4066
CD4007UB
74HCU04

Ok, the last two sound rather digital but they are very handy in analog
apps. However, to be truthful here I design a lot of circuitry with
discretes. Mostly that is for cost or performance reasons.

So if you had asked for favorite parts instead the list would ramble on
with BSS123, 2907, BFS17, BAV99 and so on.

Regards, Joerg
 
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Nicholas O. Lindan

Jan 1, 1970
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Louis Levin said:
What are your favorite [most used] 10 analog IC's?

None of them are glamorous. The janitors of the analog world.
You can live without the CEO, but with no janitor the company's
doomed.

LM324 - op-amp family
LM393 - comparator family
LM29xx - LDO voltage regulator family
AD654 - V/F
ICL7611 - CMOS op-amp family
4051 - CMOS mux family

The rest are application specific, rarely used more than
once or twice.
 
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Tim Shoppa

Jan 1, 1970
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By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design

Hmm, it's not really an all-purpuse chip, but I've been having lots of
fun with an AD9951 DDS chip lately. If I tried to do this with
small-scale chips I'd end up with a humoungous PCB filled with many
dozens of chips and it wouldn't perform one tenth as well (maybe one
hundredth as well) as this magic little chip.

More generically: NE555, LM324, TL084, CA3046, CD4007, ULN2803, LM317.

Tim.
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello Tim,
More generically: NE555, LM324, TL084, CA3046, CD4007, ULN2803, LM317.

Nice mix. The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs around 40 cents instead of
the usual 20. Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing. Sounds too
much like "transistor array emeritus".

Regards, Joerg
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello Tim,


Nice mix. The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs around 40 cents instead of
the usual 20. Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing. Sounds too
much like "transistor array emeritus".

Regards, Joerg

My favorites: Make your own circuit on TSMC, X-Fab, PolarFab, AMS,
AMI, Atmel, IBM, etc ;-)

...Jim Thompson
 
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Tim Wescott

Jan 1, 1970
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Jim said:
My favorites: Make your own circuit on TSMC, X-Fab, PolarFab, AMS,
AMI, Atmel, IBM, etc ;-)

Hey thanks Jim. Do you have Digi-Key part numbers for any of those?

I'm wondering if I'll see 24-hour-turn IC fab houses in my lifetime, or
if it'll never happen.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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Hey thanks Jim. Do you have Digi-Key part numbers for any of those?

I'm wondering if I'll see 24-hour-turn IC fab houses in my lifetime, or
if it'll never happen.

There was a time, in the early 1960's, where we used to turn a new run
over a weekend. Those were the fun days when I drew my own layouts on
a quadrille pad and cut my own rubylith ;-)

...Jim Thompson
 
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Nicholas O. Lindan

Jan 1, 1970
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Oh, yeah, and those LM385 Vref thingies.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis

LM1117 ldo reg

LM45 temperature sensor

LM8261 c-load opamp

AD8014 fast opamp

LM7301 gp sot-23 opamp

SN65LVDS2DBVB lvds line receiver

ADCMP565 comparator

MC10EL89 semi-analog ECL thing

ERA-5 mmic

HMC465LP5 amp, except that it costs $185 each



Am I only allowed 10?

John
 
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Luhan Monat

Jan 1, 1970
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Louis said:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis

PIC12F675 (with a/d) along with MCP41010 (10k programable potientiometer
used a d/a) - then do everything in software.
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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LM1117 ldo reg

LM45 temperature sensor

LM8261 c-load opamp

AD8014 fast opamp

LM7301 gp sot-23 opamp

SN65LVDS2DBVB lvds line receiver

ADCMP565 comparator

MC10EL89 semi-analog ECL thing

ERA-5 mmic

HMC465LP5 amp, except that it costs $185 each



Am I only allowed 10?

John

My all-time best sellers: 1488, 1489

...Jim Thompson
 
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john jardine

Jan 1, 1970
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Louis Levin said:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

Louis

LM393:TL084:SA602:TSH94:FST3125:MCP3202:74HC132:74HC4060:74HC14:MC34152.
Wishful thought ... One day I'll be free to use something costing more than
a few coppers and not in the Farnell catalogue :)
regards
john
 
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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

I'd have to start with the LM78XX type of regulators. They are just so
handy.

The rest of the list, I'm having trouble with the order of:

The flash versions of the 8752 are nice microcontrollers to work with.

The Cool-Runner CPLDs were just about the handiest part in the world when
the 5V version was on the market.

The LT1028 op-amp is very handy for low noise stuff.

The LM324 is nice for general DCish op-amping

The TL07X is good as a high impedance op-amp that can do audio frequencies
ok.

HC4053 has shown up in many tricky places. In a few it is used as an
analog switch.

The LM339 is a handy quad comparitor. It is fast enough for many jobs.

The LT1016 is a good fast comparitor because it runs stabily through its
linear range. You can get about a 40GHz Gain-bandwidth out of them and
the input side current spike is small enough in most cases.

The "zero power" version on the 22V10 like TICPAL22V10Z is handy in
battery powered stuff.

Since that only 9, I'll add the ICT-7540. It is a PAL that is very like a
22V10 except it is more like its 22V22. It has a total of 40 macrocells
in a 28 pin plcc package.
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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This is Louis Levin for forever:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

I like stuffs like the 555 timer (such as NE555), LM317, LM324, LM339,
and regulators like the 78xx series (rather useful).

Also I like 74xx logic IC's but they aren't exactly analog.

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Mike Diack

Jan 1, 1970
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Gotta put a word in for the AD633 analog X-er. Don't use it often, but it
does what it does really well.
Funny how when i think of the really nifty chips, AD crops up again and
again - things like the AD75019 patchbay on a chip, AD98xx DDS's, SSM2018
VCA etc etc.
Must have some awfully brainy people in Norwood, MA.
M
 
Louis said:
Given the wide range of experience of people in this group, I thought
it might be informative to ask:

What are your favorite 10 analog IC's?

By a "favorite" IC, I mean one that covers the widest range of
applications and perhaps replaces several of an earlier design. Or
maybe one that you keep coming back to that solves a particular
problem easily.

With so many new IC's entering the market, many of them being rather
specialized, I personally find it difficult to keep up.

I find it odd that nobody has mentioned the 4046 phase-locked loop.
A very handy gadget - the Philips 74HCT9046 is one of the more
impressive variants of RCA's original design, which was in turn a
spectacular improvement on Jim's MC4024/MC4044 combination which I
first used back in 1972.
 
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Tim Shoppa

Jan 1, 1970
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The CA3046 might be a bit of a concern, some distributors only
have National's version in stock which costs
around 40 cents instead of the usual 20.

It's been years since I saw NatSemi CA3046's for sale. All the ones I
get are Intersil now. The only catalog house that has them is Allied.
Some call the CA part "mature", an expression that gives
me goose pimples when I see that in a semiconductor listing.

Well, both Intersil and Allied are past mature, they're just plain
senile.

Tim.
 
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Fred Bloggs

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
The "zero power" version on the 22V10 like TICPAL22V10Z is handy in
battery powered stuff.
Now *that* is a good digital catch-all.
 
Mike said:
Gotta put a word in for the AD633 analog X-er. Don't use it often, but it
does what it does really well.
Funny how when i think of the really nifty chips, AD crops up again and
again - things like the AD75019 patchbay on a chip, AD98xx DDS's, SSM2018
VCA etc etc.
Must have some awfully brainy people in Norwood, MA.
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Barry Gilbert comes to mind. Google for "Barry Gilbert" with "Analog
Devices" and you get some interesting hits. Jim Thompson is proud of
the analog multiplier he did for Motorola, but Barry Gilbert is the guy
who got it right, amongst a wide variety of other spectacular
successes.
 
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