Today I got an email from the Toshiba tech support saying the part for which
I want a datasheet is obsolete and they don't have the sheet anymore. (Bad
Toshiba, bad, bad, bad. In the kennel, no walkies for you tonight...)

The part is a TCD5381AP area ccd sensor, used in a webcam I take apart to
build a specialised underwater camera.

Does anyone have, or know where I might find, a copy of this datasheet?

jtaylor wrote...

Today I got an email from the Toshiba tech support saying the part for
which I want a datasheet is obsolete and they don't have the sheet anymore.
(Bad Toshiba, bad, bad, bad. In the kennel, no walkies for you tonight...)

The part is a TCD5381AP area ccd sensor, used in a webcam I take apart
to build a specialised underwater camera.

Does anyone have, or know where I might find, a copy of this datasheet?

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) ccd interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.


--
Thanks,
- Win

"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in
message ...

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) CCD interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.

While we are talking CCD sensors, any recommendations for ones that are
readily and reliably available at affordable prices?

I just want a linear sensor to scan paper whizzing past.

Doesn't have to be very high resolution, 1K seems fine.

I just don't want to design something in and have to redesign it due to a
sensor going obsolete/unobtainable every few months. Wishful thinking?

Having looked at some data sheets, there seems a great deal of similarity
(clock in, analogue pixels out) so maybe it isn't a big deal.

Pulling a CCD out of an old flatbed scanner
may be cheaper and quicker than getting new samples,
but means hunting for a data sheet. (Bad Toshiba again?).

I wonder if a PC scanner might have more pixels than I want, but then again
I can always merge adjacent pixels together to lower the resolution.

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:18:03 +0000, Kryten wrote:
"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311
(582x681) and TCD5340 (492x1163) CCD interline color image sensors, in
case the info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some
relevance. I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.

While we are talking CCD sensors, any recommendations for ones that are
readily and reliably available at affordable prices?

I just want a linear sensor to scan paper whizzing past.

Pulling a CCD out of an old flatbed scanner
may be cheaper and quicker than getting new samples,
but means hunting for a data sheet. (Bad Toshiba again?).

I wonder if a PC scanner might have more pixels than I want, but then again
I can always merge adjacent pixels together to lower the resolution.

I have an "IBM ADF Color Scanner" with an ISA card for an interface, which
makes it useless, even though it was working last time I had an ISA comp.

Here's some snaps:
http://www.neodruid.net/images/IBM-Scanner.jpg
http://www.neodruid.net/images/IBM-Scanner-label.jpg
http://www.neodruid.net/images/IBM-Scanner-card.jpg

It's sheet-feed, if that's not clear from the pix.

It was about $75.00 about ten years ago; it's in Whittier, CA, USA, so if
you're not withing driving distance I'd have to ship it, which I'd want
you to pay for, and maybe a few bucks for my time.

Let me know - you could email me at , except that
that's a spam dump; but I have a real email at the same server: simply
elide 'ard'.

Cheers!
Rich

"Rich Grise" wrote in message
news
I have an "IBM ADF Color Scanner"

Thanks for the kind offer Rich, but I'm in the UK and have an old scanner
with a dead PSU and LPT interface, so that is for the chop if I want to play
with its innards.

I expect I'd need a lot of time with a scope, which I don't have.
An EE without scope is like a guy without a...
but I digress. Manage without for ages, looks like I need to find one good
enough and cheap enough. Sadly these criteria are hard to overlap.

"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in
message ...
jtaylor wrote...

Today I got an email from the Toshiba tech support saying the part for
which I want a datasheet is obsolete and they don't have the sheet
anymore.
(Bad Toshiba, bad, bad, bad. In the kennel, no walkies for you
tonight...)

The part is a TCD5381AP area ccd sensor, used in a webcam I take apart
to build a specialised underwater camera.

Does anyone have, or know where I might find, a copy of this datasheet?

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) ccd interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.


--
Thanks,
- Win

Win, I emailed you but it may well have ebitorated as you have such a
well-munged address.

Are these datasheets files or paper?

jtaylor wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote ...
jtaylor wrote...

Today I got an email from the Toshiba tech support saying the part
for which I want a datasheet is obsolete and they don't have it
The part is a TCD5381AP area ccd sensor, used in a webcam I take
apart to build a specialised underwater camera.

I have datasheets for Toshiba's TCD5301 (492v x 682h), TCD5311 (582x681)
and TCD5340 (492x1163) ccd interline color image sensors, in case the
info in one of these '53xx-series datasheets might be of some relevance.
I also have a datasheet for their TCD5481 614x858 sensor.

Win, I emailed you but it may well have ebitorated as you have such
a well-munged address.

Or perhaps my spam filter ebitorated your email.

Are these datasheets files or paper?

Files. I have 9 files of various Toshiba TCDxxxx ccd image sensors.


--
Thanks,
- Win

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On 21 Apr 2005 06:11:06 -0700,
Winfield Hill -edu wrote
in Msg.

Win, I emailed you but it may well have ebitorated as you have such
a well-munged address.

Or perhaps my spam filter ebitorated your email.

No entry found for ebitorate.

Did you mean arbitrate?
Suggestions:
arbitrate
obturate
butyrate
iterate
obliterate
arbitrator
Epitrite
obdurate
arbitrated
arbitrates
aliterate
Odorate
estruate
EBITDA
Oblatrate
obturated
obturates
e-trade

so, what is "to ebitorate"?

--Daniel

"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in
message ...

Win, I emailed you but it may well have ebitorated as you have such
a well-munged address.

Or perhaps my spam filter ebitorated your email.

Are these datasheets files or paper?

Files. I have 9 files of various Toshiba TCDxxxx ccd image sensors.


Oh goody.

Can I have copies of them _all_?

jtaylor wrote...

Can I have copies of them _all_?

By email? They're in my home computer, I'll send them later.


--
Thanks,
- Win

["Followup-To:" header set to sci.electronics.design.]
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:44:37 -0300,
jtaylor wrote
in Msg.

"Winfield Hill" -edu wrote in
message ...

Files. I have 9 files of various Toshiba TCDxxxx ccd image sensors.


Oh goody.

Can I have copies of them _all_?

You'll probably find them he

http://www.datasheetarchive.com/datasheet/pdf/4830.html

The link came halfway down on the first page of a toshiba ccd datasheet
Google search.

The Toshiba web page itself is a horror. Like all pages of companies that
produce everything from electronic components to consumer stuff.
Counterexamples? Siemens got better when they split off the Infineon
semiconductor line, but that doesn't count. --D.