Can anyone shed some light on the naming conventions used by Texas Instruments manuals/guides/documents. For example slaa490, slau337. Is there a pattern hidden? Anyway to tell, just by looking at the name of the file, what product family it refers to?
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There is no rhyme or reason to their naming conventions. Keep in mind that the TI of today is the result of at least 7 acquisitions in the last 15 years, and probably several dozen over the whole lifetime of the company. Each time they buy a new company they inherit their naming conventions. You might see some resemblance of reason within a small product line (their audio ADC/DAC's, for example), but that will not extend to their other product lines. |
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Well, I just found something that makes me think there is a rhyme or reason: This data sheet, acquired from Harris Semiconductor, features the letters H and S at spots 3 and 4: SCHS313. Then, there is the obvious: If there is a letter at the end, it's the document's revision, as in the TL431 datasheet, which currently is at revision L. Maybe if we keep our eyes open, we will find more rhymes and reasons. |
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Naming conventions on chips can be very inconvenient. National has some data converter sets that are logic: like the ADC121S021 is a 1x 12-bit 200ksps A/D where the ADC102S051 is a 2x 10-bit 500ksps ADC. But you still need to know which digit stands for 12-bit, and what '021' is. TI has many brands merged into their productline.You may see some burr brown products between their normal instrumentation amplifiers. Also TPS and TLV seem to be used a lot for power products, but TLV is also used on some opamps. Just type the 'generic' name (prefix + number) in google , and you usually will see what it is. |
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