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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default How are IC's Labeled?


Eeyore wrote:

Peter Bennett wrote:

"gore" wrote:

I work at an electronics contract manufacturimg facility. We do work for
several companies and I wonder why they use different labels on the
schematics and pcb's to refer to IC's. Some of them have a U1, an A1, and
X1, or an IC1. Why do they do this? Is there a standard used to label IC's
in a schematic? Just curious why this is.


The standard reference designator for integrated circuits is "U" -
anything else is wrong! ( IMHO :-) )


And what does U stand for ? Probably the stupidest choice ever aside from Q.



Sigh. Do ANY of your neurons work? It was another available letter,
and used to identify the 'Unique' integrated circuits.


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