SC1512-A4 and SC1512(13)-A4

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I’m looking for Raspberry Pi’s RP2354B microcontroller, and I see that’s in the description of SC1512-A4 and SC1512(13)-A4. Are those alternative names for the RP2354B? If so, could they be renamed to RP2354B (the same way other distributors do e.g. https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C39843328.html ) so that they’re easier to find?

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Hello,

Welcome to the Tech Forum.

These are New products here from the manufacturer and the RP2354B is not new for Raspberry Pi so this would have a new or different part number but still associated in our system.

The manufacturer controls what we have for their part number so it is displayed how they requested it.

Thank you
Ryan

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Hi disctech,

The SC1512-A4 and SC1512(13)-A4 are the actual orderable part numbers for the 7" reel and 13" reel for the RP2354B, respectively.

Why they use a completely different numbering system for the orderable part numbers is perplexing, but not particularly uncommon among electronic component companies’ products.

However, by putting the common name of RP2354B in the description, they are easily found with a search string of "RP2354B ".

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All I can say is that by choosing this oddball part number, they make it less likely that someone will buy this from digikey. Put the part number into a part search engine like octopart, and you won’t find it on digikey rp2354b | Octopart . Indeed, I’ve been sourcing this part from LCSC!

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Oh good grief! That’s disappointing!

Unfortunately, we must use the orderable part number as the primary number. If we used the other “common” part number, it would not specify to which variant of the orderable part number it referred. It would be difficult for us to have one part number which points to more than one variant - it needs to be unique.

If you’ve ever looked at almost any German product, such as terminal blocks, or any Renesas microcontroller, you’ll find a similar phenomenon.

For instance, a popular terminal block is the Phoenix Combicon PT series “PT 2.5/ 2-5.0-H”, but we have to list it as “1935776”. However, searching for either part number will turn up the correct part in the search results.

All I can say is that if a product has different “orderable” part numbers and “common” part numbers/names, we try to get the “common” name for products listed either in the description or somewhere in the parametrics such that if one searches for that name, it should come up in the search results.

However, you bring up an interesting point in that we didn’t show up in the Octopart search. We may have to see if anything can be done about that.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.