PWM controller datasheets written in German? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ocset
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 08:18:44 pm
content: HiI wonder if there are copies of datasheets for onsemi, linear.com, ti.com, fairchildsemi, etc datasheets written in German?Eg, is there a copy of the LT1248 datasheet in German?Or indeed, any other SMPS controller datasheet in German?...or are they all in English?LT1248 datasheethttps://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/1248fd.pdf

author: m98
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 30, 2019, 08:49:00 pm
content: Why would you need that? Even German IC manufacturers will rather have additional Chinese than German datasheets. Who would be the target group to reach with that effort? Hobbyists with rusty english?

author: babysitter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2019, 09:22:10 am
content: "Why should they even?"For entertainment, this is as german datasheety as it gets: ICs from the former GDR.https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/basteln/Konsumg%C3%BCter/DDR-Halbleiter/Best regardsHendrikEDIT: You might have luck with some old datasheets from west german manufacturers, too.

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2019, 09:31:33 am
content: Diotec mixes English and German in their datasheets and it's kinda annoyingNot sure if they make PWM chips, though.

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2019, 10:12:56 am
content: At the start of World War I the technical language that the world used was German as this was the language the best scientific papers were written in. Even Alan Turing wrote about "On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" without translating the title to English. Over the next thirty years this changed, mainly due to the mass exodus of scientists from Germany to the USA until the principle language of science and technology became English.Now look around and you will find hundreds of papers published by Chinese engineers and scientists. Right now they are using English but I would not be surprised to find an increase in papers published in Chinese.

author: ocset
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 31, 2019, 01:56:39 pm
content: Thanks, this is absolutely fascinating. I never realised.It shows though, how bad the electronics industry is in UK, when Electronics engineers from Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland…never come to work in UK even though they speak fluent English.I have worked in some 39 different UK electronics depts , all over UK, and never met a single National of those countries.…I tell a lie, I did meet some young French Electronic engineer’s who had come over to Alstom in UK but only on short internments…...oh....and two young Austrian electronics engineers at Tridonic, who were also over on short internments.......but that was all........................i think all of them were counting the days before they could get back over to the mainland Europe though.…oh, and once I worked near Bicester and the 18 year old German son of the German guy who was buying us out came over for a 3 month summer job once…prior to him doing his EE degree in Germany………….he was amazingly intelligent….he could code in C……I taught him Buck and Boost LED driver design and he was off laying out his own boards in days…..i didn’t at first believe him when he said he understood, so I put a deliberate typo in the excel calculations sheet…he amazed me by spotting it straight away and giving the correction….if all German teens are like that….then no wonder they dont want to come to UK....and no wonder many of my British EE colleagues dont get accepted for their German EE job applications.