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alt. A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product n. A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product
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thumb|A floppy disk controller datasheet.
A datasheet, data sheet, or spec sheet is a document that summarizes the performance and other technical characteristics of a product, machine, component (e.g., an electronic component), material, a subsystem (e.g., a power supply) or software in sufficient detail to be used by a design engineer to integrate the component into a system. Typically, a datasheet is created by the component/subsystem/software manufacturer and begins with an introductory page describing the rest of the document, followed by listings of specific characteristics, with further information on the connectivity of the devices. In cases where there is relevant source code to include, it is usually attached near the end of the document or separated into another file.
Depending on the specific purpose, a datasheet may offer an average value, a typical value, a typical range, engineering tolerances, or a nominal value. The type and source of data are usually stated on the datasheet.
A datasheet is usually used for technical communication to describe technical characteristics of an item or product. It can be published by the manufacturer to help people choose products or to help use the products. By contrast, a technical specification is an explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, or service.
An electronic datasheet specifies characteristics in a formal structure that allows the information to be processed by a machine. Such machine readable descriptions can facilitate information retrieval, display, design, testing, interfacing, verification, and system discovery. Examples include transducer electronic data sheets for describing sensor characteristics, and Electronic device descriptions in CANopen or descriptions in markup languages, such as SensorML.
The rules for Games Workshop's Citadel Miniatures from the Warhammer 40,000 range are available as datasheets throughout many Games Workshop publications. Games Workshop started the widespread use of datasheets with the onset of 7th edition and have included them as the central part of the rules section in codices published since May 2014. Datasheets were first made available only as part of the digital dataslate range, starting in December 2013.
Datasheets provide the rules for individual characters, units and vehicles, or groups of these to be used together as a formation. They can be found in a variety of locations such as a faction's Codex, Codex Supplements, Expansions, Supplements, Digital releases - such as dataslates, and even sometimes in White Dwarf - Games Workshop's weekly magazine. More information on the publications available from Games Workshop can be found on the Codex (Warhammer 40,000) Wikipedia page. This provides a list of all the current books and digital releases in which it is possible to find datasheets, and other rules and also background information.
This article provides a list of all the current datatsheets along with the publication that includes that datasheet, so you can easily find all the rules that you need. Note: Some datasheets and their originating publications, although still valid for use in games, are no longer available for purchase OR are no longer distributed by Games Workshop - due to a limited or exclusive nature. These datasheets were usually distributed as part of an online bundle, free digital release from the Warhammer App or as part of an article in White Dwarf (which are always available digitally from the Black Library and iTunes even when the paper issue has sold out).
Usage examples of "datasheet".
Dralath glanced at the next datasheet, detailing a crop failure in the Rarathik District, and the next, which described an abortive attempt at rebellion by the district’s farmers, then brought his hand down on the desk with an angry slap.
The images and datasheets on the old television tubes vanished, replaced by metre-high green letters which moved right to left across the wall, delineation frequently interrupted by the individual screen rims.
He could see the cube had filled with datasheets, fuzzy green script with a perceptible Y-axis instability.
That was one of the advantages the assembler had over the members of nearly all the galaxy's sentient species: it could read them as easily as a primitive ink-and-paper datasheet, while its own emotions and calculations remained a masked enigma to them.
That was one of the advantages the assembler had over the members of nearly all the galaxy's sentient species: it could read them as easily as a primitive ink-and-paper datasheet, while its own emotions and calculations remained a masked enigma to them.