Hello all: I'm doing some reliability prediction of electronics equipment. I want to have some information about the category of the components, such as what's the differences between IC and semiconductor, what's the differences among logic IC, analog IC, and digital IC, etc. In addition, given a part number, how could I know which category it is? For example, intel firmware hub 82802AB. Totally no idea. Any information are very welcome. Thanks, Ruby _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------