App Note/DataSheet Humor.......... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2018, 11:15:22 pm
content: Post up your favorite app note and data sheet humor. Writing technical documents can get pretty tedious so it always makes me smile when I see that an author tossed in something funny.Lots of you will already know about the humor of Jim Williams:https://www.edn.com/Pdf/ViewPdf?contentItemId=4411017Here are another couple examples I've stumbled upon:From "Stability analysis of voltage-feedback opamps"http://www.ti.com/lit/an/sloa020a/sloa020a.pdf"When the loop gain approaches minus one, or to express it mathematically 1∠180°, equation 5 approaches infinity because 1/0⇒∞. The circuit output heads for infinity as fast as it can using the equation of a straight line. If the output were not energy limited, the circuit would explode the world, but it is energy limited by the power supplies so the world stays intact."From "AN1375, See What You Can Do with CTMU - Microchip Technology"http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/appnotes/ctmu%2001375a.pdfTwo of the "really complex applications" for this part are "Solving World Hunger" and "Bring About World Peace"

author: Bassman59
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 12:27:40 am
content: I wish I could find it online, no luck so far, but I remember a colleague at a long-ago job had a data sheet for a National Semiconductor "Odor-I/O" device tacked onto his wall. It was done up in the exact style of an NS data sheet, totally brilliant.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 03:27:46 am
content: Sometimes they don't just slip it in, it is the whole thing.http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdfhttps://www.edn.com/electronics-products/electronic-product-reviews/reader-s-choice-2015/4439097/Zener-enhanced-Dark-Emitting-Diodes--ZeDEDs--deliver-10X-more-Dark-Flux-WattAnd Alibaba is willing to sell you anything.Dark Emitting Diodes - Alibabahttps://www.alibaba.com› Electronic Components & Supplies › diode › emiter diode26 products - Alibaba.com offers 26 dark emitting diodes products. About 11% of these are diodes. A wide variety of dark emitting diodes options are available to ...

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 05:30:40 am
content: Page 57http://bama.edebris.com/download/tek/7a26/tek-7a26.pdfEdit: yes that's manual humor, but it counts!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 08:43:45 am
content: Signetics WOM:http://repeater-builder.com/molotora/gontor/25120-bw.pdf

author: capt bullshot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 10:16:09 am
content: Sometimes that kind of humour just isn't understood:Long time ago, I wrote some technical manual in German language. There was an chapter about examples, the German word is "Beispiel". Anyway, it's a common joke to say "zum Bleistift" instead of "zum Beispiel" - so I was in a mood an wrote "Bleistifte" instead of "Beispiele" for the chapters header. Quite some time later, I got hold of the English translation, just to find a chapter "Pencils" (which is the correct translation of "Bleistifte"). Never heard of anyone noticing that, but I'm sure no native English speaker would understand "Pencils" as the headline to an chapter regarding examples.

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 30, 2018, 10:28:35 am
content: More in a previous thread here...https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/datasheet-jokes/(Including the predecessor to the 25120 WOM - the 'Umac 606 Infernal Anode Phantasatron')

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 01, 2018, 02:56:51 am
content: Quote from: Gyro on November 30, 2018, 10:28:35 amDamn. I even looked around for other threads. Sorry

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2023, 01:26:06 am
content: Not sure if it's exactly humor, but you have to wonder who approved this Figure 6-1.https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/MCP73831-Family-Data-Sheet-DS20001984H.pdf

author: Smokey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2023, 08:51:31 am
content: I know they didn't intend this to be funny... but this is pretty damn funny.... (page2)Chinese Battery Charger Chip (in stock at Digikey!)https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/UTD%20Semi%20PDFs/TP4057.pdf

author: EPAIII
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 21, 2023, 11:54:58 pm
content: Not in a data sheet, but I have seen Kilroy looking over the outer block outline of schematics. And over some of the circuit traces.