{snip} PS> Just recently I was working with a vendor who specified a pullup for = the open drain on their chips to be 3.01 K +- 1%. Of course when asked tehy could not explain such a pickiness in values and eventually agreed to = allow 4.7K 5% resistors :-))))) {snip} I've been on both sides of this "issue". In a past job I designed = in-circuit simulators and emulators for a couple of microcontrollers. If = I used a 3.32k pull-up on a line (the circuit would have worked fine = with a value of 1-50k), guess what went into the reference designs and = data sheets? So I'm certain that there are designs out there using 1% = resistors without regard to why. On the other side, with a pull-up similar to the above 1-50k value = needed, I've seen reference designs published with pull-ups of 5k. One = engineer I've worked with was much into copying reference designs = without regard for what he was doing so. You can guess at the grief he = got when trying to find 5.0K resistors for his circuit. The moral of the story is to understand your parts and circuits instead = of blindly copying someone else's work. Obviously Mr. Nudelman = understands instead of just copying. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu