Renesas offers a portfolio of ICs, including their clock buffer IC 49FCT3805AQGI8. A question we receive regularly is what the ‘8’ at the end of this product number signifies, and if the device is compatible with BoMs that call out 49FCT3805AQGI, no ‘8’.
The ‘8’ signifies reel packaging, and otherwise has no effect or significance. The product is precisely the same in either case, the only difference is reeled packaging versus tube packaging.