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Technical Documentation

1. Application Notes
   An Application Note is an engineering support document that assists the user in evaluating the operation of a device product line, package type or general application topic. An application note contains real-world application information about how a specific Freescale device/product is used with other Freescale Semiconductor or vendor parts and or software to address a particular technical issue.
2. Data Libraries
   A Data Library is a compilation of data sheets and supporting information that may include selector guide tables. The information in a data library is aimed at a specific product market, and most of the information has already been printed as stand–alone data sheets.
3. Data Sheets
   A Data Sheet describes the functionality of a device or component, including the electrical characteristics, packaging, and signal connections. In the semiconductor industry, a data sheet is a technical document that develops as the product matures. Initially, the data sheet describes a component in its Product Preview stage; that is when a new product is introduced into the marketplace. As the product begins initial manufacturing (sample devices), the data sheet is expanded to the Advance Information stage to include more technical information. An Advance Information document replaces its predecessor Product Preview document. When the device goes into full production and test data is available, the document is expanded to Technical Data stage to include all relevant information. The Technical Data document replaces the Advance Information document.
4. Engineering Bulletins
   An Engineering Bulletin focuses on a single specific topic for a particular engineering or programming issue involving one or several devices and is generally germane to an entire technology. Often, an engineering bulletin presents information on a new development, such as a new revision of a product in which the differences between the new revision and the old one are explained.
5. Errata
   A chip mask set Errata provides additional or corrective information for a particular device mask set. Individual errata items are published cumulatively. Documentation errata—that is, errors and updates reported for a revision of a manual or data sheet or other technical publication—are typically published in an Addendum.
6. Packaging Information
   Package drawings include exact dimensions for the placement of pins, height of the package, and related information. These drawings are used by printed circuit board layout designers to create the footprint for the device, orientation of the pins, and other dimensions used for auto-placement tools. Pinout drawings display the name and location of the signal(s) on each pin and may indicate the functional modules associated with pin/signal groupings.
7. Quick Reference Guides
   A Quick Reference Guide is a document that contains technical reference information, such as block diagrams, pinouts, alphabetized instruction set, alphabetized registers, alphabetized third-party vendors and their products, and interrupt diagrams.
8. Reliability and Quality Information
   Information related to product reliability and quality usually used by customers during their qualification and risk assesment process. Information usually includes items like failure rates under accelerated conditions and MTBF data. For risk assesment, items like ESD, moisture sensetivity, temperature cycling, and solder reflow limits and other such data may be included. Information is often specific to a specific of part, perhaps covering several packages, but might address a family or packages, Tape & Reel, etc. Manufacturing and assembly site certification documents could also be included in this category.
9. Reference Manuals
   A Reference Manual presents a comprehensive description of the structure and function (operation) of a particular part/system or family of devices. A reference manual describes the functionality of a microprocessor, micro–controller, or other sub–micron–sized device. It begins with an overview of the product that includes product features and a functional block diagram, followed with a chapter on each of the blocks or modules depicted in the block diagram. Each chapter describes the components of a module and how they interact, and it usually includes detailed descriptions of registers and register bits.
10. Users Guides
    A Users Guide is written for the applications or systems engineer who wants to know how to program the device, complete with examples of how to operate the product most efficiently. A users guide usually begins with a system–level chapter that emphasizes system architecture with the goal of making it easy for the user to connect with the outside world. Topics covered in a system–level chapter include using chip ID, core ID, external shared memory, shared flash, and so on. The chapter provides guidance in using the EVM or ADS development system, with examples. The remaining chapters in the user's guide are typically not organized by chip module but rather by programming topics.

Marketing Documentation

1. Brochures
   A Brochure is a multi–page glossy four–color document that provides key information on a product or family of products. Brochures have a variety of eye–appealing formats and are staples of marketing kits and sales packages. Brochures are distributed by marketing and sales professionals at trade shows, conferences, and customer meetings.
2. Fact Sheets
   A Fact Sheet is a one–page (front and back) glossy four–color document with color photographs that provides key information on a product or application and its targeted market or use. Fact sheets are typically distributed at trade shows, and by sales professionals to introduce a potential customer to a product, product family or application
3. Product Briefs
   A Product Brief is a technical marketing communications tool. It contains concise overview/summary information to enable the customer to quickly evaluate a product for design suitability. A Product Brief contains more extensive technical information than a Fact Sheet and is oriented to a product, platform or product family, and briefly d escribes the product These documents are typically distributed at trade shows and by sales profesionals to introduce a potential customer to a product or product family.
4. Product Change Notices
   A Product Change Notice is a brief report on a product or process change. Freescale Semiconductor is legally and contractually obligated to notify its customers of any changes to the Form, Fit, Function, or Reliability of Freescale products.
5. Product Numbering Scheme
   Defines the alpha and numeric characters used in a product number, i.e., product status, temperature range, package, frequency, etc.
6. Reports and Presentations
   Reports and Presentations are colorful documents, typically in slide format, that guide the reader through marketing and/or technical information on well–defined topics pertaining to product functionality, product applications, and product markets.
7. Roadmaps
   A Roadmap is a pictorial representation of planned products and product families and technologies. Its purpose is to provide information on business strategies/projections for new products along a well–defined timeline.
8. Selector Guides
   A Selector Guide is essentially a product catalog that lists available products and key details on the products to assist the reader in selecting products. A selector guide is a regularly–published document that contains key line item, device–specific information for particular product families.
9. Technology Publications
   Technical articles, technical presentations, and conference proceedings on Freescale technologies.
10. Training Reference Material
    Training Reference Materials are Freescale Semiconductor documents used in training sessions that provide sufficient information to serve as useful, stand–alone tutorial references.
11. White Papers
    A white paper is a short document (typically 30 to 60 pages) giving serious and often in–depth coverage on a well–defined technical subject. White papers are prepared for conferences and symposiums, and they display the author's byline. White papers in the semiconductor industry are classified according to the applications/technologies to which they apply.

University Courseware

1. Academic Labs
   Guided Inquiry materials that provide an overview, and pose �fill-in-the-blank� questions for students to use in a laboratory or classroom environment. Can be generated by Freescale or non-Freescale entities.
2. Student Projects
   Technical reports and presentations using Freescale products, generated by students enrolled in universities.
3. Teacher Resources
   Educator lecture notes, typically in slide format, that guide the reader through technical information at a university level, on general or well�defined topics pertaining to product functionality, and product applications and teaching concepts.