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Addition of Texas Instruments DC-DC Converter Modules PTN78000 (1.5A)… #2083
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…, PTN78020 (6A) & PTN78060 (3A)
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I've done drawings for the footprints as well. Some of the dimensions are out by 0.01mm - due to rounding of some of the dimensions to establish a centre line (otherwise I'd be working on a 0.005mm grid |
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Please move comp name down.
Done! :) |
Thanks. |
I'm not quite sure I agree with these names. They are named by the product, which isn't the package name. The package name could be used for many products. Take https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ptn78000w.pdf for example; you can see in the footprint drawing the package name is I would then name them @chschlue |
You certainly have a point there, but I don't think it's quite so easy. I went with this because it's the usual way of naming footprints in Converter_DCDC (granted, that's mainly because most manufacturers don't have special names for their DC-DC converter packages.) There are a couple other converters using the same module (according to TI's package search) but that it's currently only used for DC-DC converters is more or less coincidence. Long story short: I'm not sure artificially restricting this FP to Converter_DCDC is the silver bullet here either as it is basically "vendor-generic". |
Yeah, a lot of the DC-DC stuff we have are modules inside a plastic box whereas these are bare PCBAs. Your proposal sounds great to me. |
@jamesrlucas Do you have anything to add to this discussion? |
I didn't even think about this - I'm more than happy to change these to a more generic footprint name to cover other parts using the same footprints. And I'd agree with keeping it as generic as possible - while all products using that footprint currently are DC-DC converters, that's not to say that will always be the case. I'll make the changes and submit a new PR over the next few days - and I'll update the symbols I've submitted to refer to the new footprints as well. |
Addition of a few DC-DC modules from Texas Instruments
I've only done the Through-hole packages for now.
Datasheets PTN78000 PTN78020 and PTN78060
I have not yet created the Symbols, I'll link the PR once complete.
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