I for one will sleep better knowing that!  :-)

Mike Hord wrote:

>>It is pretty annoying that they don't explain it better. My bet is Y is
>>the long orientation of the package and X is at a right angle to that,
>>both on a plane parallel to the circuit board.. Please report back and
>>let us know.
>>    
>>
>
>The irksome thing is that there IS no "long orientation":  the package
>is square, with pads 1, 2, and 3 along one side, 5, 6, and 7 along
>the opposite side, and 4 and 8 opposite each other on the other two
>edges.
>
>What's more, in the datasheet, the chip is usually pictured from
>the underside, with pin 8 being at the "top" of the diagram, and
>numbering clockwise from there with 1 at the upper right.
>
>That diagram MIGHT lead one to believe that the X-axis would go
>"left-right" (as I speculated in the OP), with the Y-axis orthogonal.
>One would be wrong. ;-)  The actual orientation is the other way:
>Y goes "left-right" and X "up-down".  Grrr.
>
>Mike H.
>
>  
>
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