Industrial Electronics for Mechanical

Engineering students EE-301

Understanding Electronic datasheets

Dr. Hadeed Ahmed Sher

Assistant Professor, EED
KFUEIT, Pakistan

Slide credits
Screenshots are taken from the datasheets for
explanation. Complete url is provided at the
end of this presentation.

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Why Datasheets ?
Datasheets have valuable information about
Electrical parameters

Max stress levels for a device

Switching characteristics
Information about the usage
Thermal design parameters

Dimensions
Important for PCB design

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Diode
Famous general purpose diodes are
1N4148 (general purpose)
1N4001 (rectification)
1N4733A (Zener)
LED

Before we proceed note that the text in this

color and red box are not datasheet contents.

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1N4148
Manufacturer information

Part/Model # This is unique.

Environment
friendly

Packaging type. Dimensions are related

with this number. Useful in PCB design

Part/Model # is not decided by the manufacturer but

by those who filed the patent. Even if this diode is
manufactured by some other company this number
remains the same

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1N4148

Never violate these limits

Switching waveforms
For pure DC

Switching waveforms
For pure DC

Transient

VF X IF

1,2,3 Any

of these or all of these leads to device burn out.

(76.8 C)

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This means that the junction temperature inside the semiconductor will rise to 350 K + Ambient
temperature (27C) if the power(Vf*If) across diode is 1 W. Note that for this reason the allowable
power dissipation is 0.5W that limits the thermal resistance to 175K which is acceptable.

More details here

1N4148
Not necessarily 0.7 V

Even if RB
some current
flows

Leakage current
increase with T and VR
Also called PIV

Important to consider at HF
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3Satisfactory

performance up to
what frequency ???

1,2

Important in high
switching frequency
applications

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1N4148

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1N4733A (Zener diode)

Datasheet has lot of models. Individual calculation required

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1N4733A (Zener diode)

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LED

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Bipolar Junction Transistor

Famous BJTs are
2N3904 (NPN)
2N3906 (PNP)
TIP 120 (NPN power BJT in Darlington pair)

Before we proceed note that the text in this

color and red box are not datasheet contents.

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2N3904
Manufacturer information

Identification number

Potential application areas

Package information

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http://www.electronics
http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/transistor/tran_2.html

2N3904

Exceeding them will burn out the device

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2N3904

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Ideally a Transistor should have none of these delays.

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2N3904

Dimensions are important in

designing a PCB

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TIP120
Manufacturer information

Document date

Pin Configuration and

Packaging information

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TLP120

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TLP120

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References
1N4148 (http://www.vishay.com/docs/81857/1n4148.pdf)
ZENER (http://www.vishay.com/docs/85816/1n4728a.pdf)
LED
(http://www1.futureelectronics.com/doc/EVERLIGHT%C2%A0/33415__T1C1-4WYA.pdf)

2N3904
(https://www.fairchildsemi.com/datasheets/2N/2N3904.pdf)

TLP120 (https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/TIP120.pdf)
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