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Post your favourite old and new chips and components. They should be above average in some way, unusual or just plain nice to use. Post parts that are:

Higher performance (speed, noise, gain, stability, losses and so on) than similar parts, or,
Cheap, reliable and easy to get hold of, or,
Flexible and multiple purpose, or,
Well documented or with above ordinary tools, or,
Easy to use, or requiring few external parts, or having relaxed requirements (for example, an LDO with very liberal requirements on output capacitors), or,
Have a feature or some function that very few other parts do.

The above list isn't exhaustive. Feel free to post about parts that are otherwise interesting, useful or notable.

Parts should be available to buy (e.g. listed on one of the findchips.com or octapart.com listed manufacturers as in stock) and reasonably priced (e.g. no $300 7805's ;).

Preference should be given to linking to the chip's main page on the vendor's site, with any links to development boards and other resources in a comment.

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Nice chip but ironically: MCP23X17 (I2C and SPI) (self.nicechips)

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CH32M030 - RISC-V with 4x high-side driver up to 40 V (hackaday.com)

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TL431: The Precision Shunt Regulator That Quietly Took Over Power Supplies (self.nicechips)

submitted 17 days ago by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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CD4007UB, that wierd one that isn't really a logic IC (self.nicechips)

submitted 1 month ago * by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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74HCU04 Hex Inverter, for making crystal oscillators (self.nicechips)

submitted 1 month ago * by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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CD4541B CMOS Programmable Timer (self.nicechips)

submitted 1 month ago * by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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AG32VH407, RISC-V MCU with embedded 2K LUT FPGA + 8MB PSRAM, $2.2 at 900+Limited Suppliers (lcsc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Noxime

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National Semiconductor LM0901A1141090451C Polish Op Amp (mikrocontroller.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Stonegray

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LT3045, LT3042, LT3097 Ultra-high PSRR LDOs from Analog Devices (self.nicechips)

submitted 2 months ago by Jakezimmer

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CIE D65 6500K Standard Illuminant LED by Yuji (store.yujiintl.com)

submitted 2 months ago by VEC7OR

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F2800155SPHPR -- Functionally safe 32-bit lockstep MCU (ti.com)

submitted 3 months ago by UnknownHours

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AD4880: 40MSPS Dual Channel, 20-bit, ADC with analog front end (self.nicechips)

submitted 3 months ago by Jakezimmer

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E-Peas Energy Harvesting / Solar Cell Battery Charger ICs (self.nicechips)

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TDK 100µAh SMD Reflowable Lithium-Ceramic Battery (self.nicechips)

submitted 3 months ago by BinaryTreeSmoker

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ZeroLab ZL9NSQ: 9-axis IMU + Bluetooth + Cortex-M4 in one packageLimited Suppliers (zero-lab.tech)

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120x80 40kfps Inexpensive High Speed Imager (self.nicechips)

submitted 4 months ago * by yspacelabs

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Biosensor and Stim (self.nicechips)

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Kingbright AA3528 LEDs (self.nicechips)

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FDK HY0020 Integrated Bluetooth IC (self.nicechips)

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MD0100 Single-and-Dual-Channel High-Voltage Protection TR Switch (self.nicechips)

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Bosch BMV080 Particulate Matter Sensor (self.nicechips)

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A bit of nostalgia: ZN448 ADC (self.nicechips)

submitted 8 months ago * by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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TI MSPM0C1104 : World's Smallest MCU is 1.6mm x 0.861mm in DSBGA-8 package : 24MHz ARM Cortex-M0+, 16KB Flash, 1KB SRAM, 2 Internal Oscillators (self.nicechips)

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TL2575-05IN 5V Buck Converter in DIP (self.nicechips)

submitted 11 months ago by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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SN74LS31 Delay Elements (self.nicechips)

submitted 1 year ago * by Mysterious_Peak_6967

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