What I think, chip manufacturers should have on their WWW-sites.
[This page as rather outdated. ;-)]
I think, manufacturers should have:
- A functional listings
- A numerical listing.
And per chip (or set of almost equal chips):
- An HTML-page with data on the chip (as much as possible, but at least an overview.
- Links to data sheets that are more printable in formats like: PS, PDF, SGML etc... (PDF seems to be very popular.)
More about the SGML standard
From our correspondent in München:
How about to add a hint about the SGML based Pinnacles
Component Information Standard (PCIS) format, developed by
the Pinnacles group (ATLIS, Hitachi, Intel, NSC, TI, ...)?
I found the following addresses in this book:
Liora Alschuler: ABCD...SGML. A User's Guide to Structured Information.
International Thomson Computer Press, 1995,
ISBN: 1-850-32197-3
Information about the PCIS standard:
The Pinnacles Secretariat
c/o The ATLIS Consulting Group
6011 Executive Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20852
tel: +1-301-816-4231
fax: +1-301-468-6758
Information regarding membership or other aspects
of the Pinnacles Group:
Bob Yencha
Sr. Systems Analyst
National Semiconductor
tel: +1-207-775-8736
b_yencha%spc.dnet@gpo.nsc.com
- Information provided by:
- Rolf Lochbuehler
- Muenchen, Germany
This is what was already in the WWW-links section of the ChipDir about it:
www.nsc.com/pinnacle.html - About a standard for chip data sheets.
- Site version is

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