Have you tried to shop for a new opamp for whatever reason? Digi-Key showed 24,270 results. Even with duplicate listing for packages and variants we are looking at a puzzling amount of choices. Then I started to narrow down some by voltage or rails...etc. regardless I feel like a lot of time is spent shopping.
I had a thought that while there are some challenges to designing circuits, so many circuits are now a bunch of chips strung together and wow it works. But when it doesn’t work, it’s a black chip like any other usually with no schematic... who knows if it’s working correctly or not.
Is it just me. I feel like the previous generation with less ICs had to understand, design and do more to achieve a good design. Ive seen some good design and some not so good stuff but they all took a lot of work to get there Im sure.
I had a thought that while there are some challenges to designing circuits, so many circuits are now a bunch of chips strung together and wow it works. But when it doesn’t work, it’s a black chip like any other usually with no schematic... who knows if it’s working correctly or not.
Is it just me. I feel like the previous generation with less ICs had to understand, design and do more to achieve a good design. Ive seen some good design and some not so good stuff but they all took a lot of work to get there Im sure.