I hope they are flexible enough to change if something in the industry changes as well. That would allow them to not fade out as something new comes in.
It depends. Most people have their favorite sources of information. But when you cannot find what you need easily, time to start searching Google for other resources. But I always like to check a few sources before applying any changes to 'important' systems just to be sure.
pocharle, quite true. This raise another question: does the website bias towards one vendor over another? We always look for alternatives and compare before making any decision.
As a technical person, I think it's better to have to search through multiple sources to find the information you need, as opposed to everything in one place. As a wise man once said "Smart people don't know everything, they know how & to find everything when needed"
This looks great! EE's have so many rocks to look under to find solid designs to use.
It appears Digi-Key has a quiet gem with different approach to locating valuable designs, a reference design library... http://designs.digikey.com/library/index.
It's not fair when your EE's have great tools like these and others don't, lol.
Hopefully when engineers can find all the technical and reliable information at one place then we will rely on it rather than google. Even now, we only find the relevent sites/cataloges on google and then have to dig in those sites for technical information.
This site should turn out to be an excellent community of Engineers and suppliers. It may be a good idea if some of the successful product designs are made available on this site ( may be at cost ) . This will help the designers to avoid reinventing the wheel, avoid duplication of effort and start-off from an established design to create a niche product by incremental effort.
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