What does the sufix mean?

[Labaris]

Hi,

Is there any difference between this two IC:

TLC2262
TLC2262CP

What does the sufix "CP" mean? Is there any audible difference?
I'm gonna build a SansAmp and I've read the CP is the original IC, but it's more expensive than the other one...

Thanks

[Govmnt_Lacky]

The C is the temperature rating of the chip. (C= 0 Degrees Celcius to 70 Degrees Celcius)
The P is the packaging type (P= 8-Pin PDIP) This is necessary!

[Ronsonic]

If you look up the basic IC number at Mouser they'll have pictures of the various packages in the results display. Very handy and a little more graphic than what you'll find in a datasheet.

[jkokura]

I wonder if there's a cheat sheet somewhere so I can learn what all the suffixes mean. Suffixes? Suffi? Suffex's? Octopi? Octopuses?

Jacob

[Skruffyhound]

Octopii

[jkokura]

Bigmuffpi? Bigmuffpii? Bigmuffpie?

Jacob

[zombiwoof]

Any time you want to decipher the codes in the name of a chip, find the datasheet for it and it will show what the suffixes mean.
You can just do a net search for "xxxxxxx datasheet" (the xxx's being the chip's designation) and you will get results from several sources.  Or you can just go to a datasheet website and punch in the chip to find it.

Al

[Labaris]

Thanks to everyone.

I thought there might be something tricky in those codes (like mojo or something, the magic of vintage or "exact" components). That's why I didn't look at the datasheet.

[newfish]

Always check the datasheet - we're all ridiculously fortunate to have them at our fingertips - and they can save minutes (hours!) of frustration.

I was once building something with a BC184 in.  I followed the layout precisely, but didn't have a 184 - so subbed a 184L in there.

Which didn't work.

After many checks of "things I might have connected wrong", I checked the datasheets - and it turns out the pin-out is different for this particular suffix.

Datasheets.  They are the future...