alt Hacker NewsThis sort of thing really annoys me. Part numbers are for use of engineers, not for the marketing dept. If you change the specs, change the part number.
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rpaddock • yesterday at 8:44 PM
I can see both sides of this. I really want different part numbers for the same reason you do.
However we deal with a lot of regulated products and to just open a case at one of the Government Paper-Pusher Regulators will cost us $5,000 to just change the part number. We are a small company and $5k hurts.
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buescher • yesterday at 8:03 PM
It annoys me too but part numbers are not a spec but more of a strong hint. The attitude of the industry is that it’s up to you to read data sheets carefully and test. Even for a 2N2222 or whatever.
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Kind of.
I want all 7400s to be four NAND gates, regardless of how they are implemented. As long as the results are correct, you might as well put a little ARM controller pretending to be four NAND gates.
For analog parts, I agree any change to the data sheet should receive at least a different suffix letter.