3.7 Reading a datasheet

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1. Find the absolute maximum ratings and the recommended operating conditions on a datasheet, and explain why you never aim for the former.
2. Read a curve (Vgs-Id, Vf-If, gain-frequency) and derive your circuit’s operating point from it.
3. Spot the pinout, the package and the thermal dissipation, and say how the package changes what the component tolerates.
4. Compare two "equivalent" components by their datasheets and choose, saying what you sacrifice.
5. Read a manufacturer’s application note and take from it a reference schematic you adapt, knowing what you changed.
6. Diagnosis: a circuit that works on the bench and fails in the tool, find on the datasheet the parameter that depends on temperature.