About this episode
David L. Jones discusses the recent changes made by Texas Instruments to the NE5532 audio opamp without updating the part number.
WTF were Texas Instruments thinking changing the design and major specs of the 45+ year old jellybean NE5532 audio opamp WITHOUT changing the part number?! New datasheet: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ne5532.pdf Old datasheet: https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/405/ne5532a-556776.pdf Change Notification: https://mm.digikey.com/Volume0/opasdata/d220001/medias/docus/5726/PCN20231114002.1.pdf Onsemi datasheet: https://www.onsemi.com/pdf/datasheet/ne5534-d.pdf Forum thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/ti-ne5532-audio-opamp-changes/ OPI134: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/opa4134.pdf 00:00 – TI have changed the classic jellybean NE5534 03:27 – Product Change …
People in this episode
Host: David L. Jones
Topics covered
- Texas Instruments
- NE5532
- audio opamp
- product change
- datasheet
- electronics
Keywords
- Texas Instruments
- NE5532
- audio opamp
- datasheet
- product change
- electronics
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Texas Instruments, Onsemi
Products: NE5532, NE5534
Books & works: datasheet, Change Notification, Forum thread
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