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Meta Creating a FAQ: how to read a datasheet

I think the Papers section can be suitable. In the category description post it says: Example of paper topics: [...] A survey of scattered information, with the paper putting it all in one place...

posted 3y ago by Mu3‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Mu3‭ · 2022-02-01T12:22:15Z (almost 3 years ago)
I think the Papers section can be suitable. In the category description post it says:

 > Example of paper topics: [...] A survey of scattered information, with the paper putting it all in one place.

A self-answered question would also work well, I think, as such questions are also popular on the StackExchange sites and get a lot of attention.

As for the example datasheet, I would perhaps go for some widely used general-purpose op-amp. Op-amps are covered in EE education so most terms in the datasheet should at least be familiar. Using an op-amp should also be a good case study since you can hook it up in different ways and have different part of the datasheet matter more for a specific application. This way you can demonstrate how to quickly look for relevant information, which I think is the #1 skill for reading datasheets.