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most recent messages 5/20/2013 8:42:51 PM analoging Having a good fundamental understanding of thermocouples is critical for work in clean rooms for the fabrication of microchips. Nearly all process tools have some sort of Tc for temp measurement... blogs message boards chat Operations per Joule Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant, 5/20/2013 Comment now 2 comments It has been estimated that the human brain performs 3.6x1015 synaptic operations per second and, from blood flow and oxygen consumption, consumes 12W. That means it manages 3x1014 operations per Joule, yet it is made up of slow and noisy components. Most recent post, analoging , 5/20/2013 8:37:49 PM Sandia National Lab is one of the leaders in developing quantum computers. The theory... Using ICs in the Land Beyond Their App-Notes Derek Koonce, Owner, DDK Interactive Consulting Services, 5/20/2013 Comment now Designing circuits is the fun part of engineering. And, as has been often noted here on Planet Analog, finding solutions to problems is what keeps an engineer employed. As an engineer, it is necessary to work with the parts available to meet design criteria. This sometimes necessitates using a part for a purpose for which it was not intended. Thermocouple Nodules, Cold Junctions & Integration Opportunities Dennis Feucht, Electronics Engineer, 5/17/2013 Comment now 7 comments When measurement instruments reach their specified performance limits, one comes to a gray zone separating reality from fantasy. Thanks to sensors, this zone is widening. Most recent post, analoging , 5/20/2013 8:42:51 PM Having a good fundamental understanding of thermocouples is critical for work in... When Are You Done With Verification? Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant, 5/17/2013 Comment now 3 comments In the everyday world that we live in, there is a common saying that says, "Measure twice, cut once". Clearly this is trying to stress the importance of checking things before you take action and that if you are sloppy with the measurement, then it can lead to expensive mistakes. Most recent post, Netcrawl, 5/20/2013 8:58:25 AM @analoging you're right US has become the "primier design center" for semiconductor... When the Going Gets Tough... Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant, 5/16/2013 Comment now 3 comments Moore's Law has been driving digital integration for a few decades, and it provides a circular reinforcement. Being able to create smaller devices means that more can be placed on a die. This provides added functionality, decreases costs per device, and makes demand for the end product larger. This spurs another round of integration and geometry reduction. Most recent post, Brian Bailey, 5/16/2013 9:29:25 PM That is very true. The EDA industry has been so concerned about timing and area... (Dis)Integrating Power Consumption, Counterintuitively Len Sherman, Senior Scientist, Maxim Integrated, 5/16/2013 Comment now 7 comments The present mobile era may be best characterized by its unrelenting pressure to reduce power consumption. Each generation of consumer electronics must offer more functionality while maintaining or extending runtime. Initially, efficiency improvements were the Holy Grail, at least from a power management viewpoint, but the process of engineering ... Most recent post, analoging , 5/17/2013 6:53:53 PM SiGe is implemented more for its high-frequency benefits due to the mobility enhancement... Crack Open One of These Books, Part 2 Brad Albing, Editor in Chief, 5/16/2013 Comment now 2 comments Following up on Part 1 of my look at some favorite engineering books -- which followed Bill Schweber's blog about cracking open a design book -- let's consider a few more that provided solid engineering information. Most recent post, Michael Dunn, 5/16/2013 9:04:24 PM Love the constant-current transformers. Are there details of how they work? Some... Prevent Your Next High-Flying Product Launch From Being Grounded Willie Chan, Sr. Product Marketing Engineer, Linear Technology, 5/16/2013 Comment now 1 Comment The widening gap between the 24V-to-28V intermediate bus commonly found in industrial, aerospace, and defense systems and the input supply voltages of modern digital processors presents design risk that could easily result in system failure, noxious smoke, or, even worse, a fire. Most recent post, eafpres, 5/16/2013 11:36:37 AM Hi Willie--interesting post and situation created by the evolution of voltage standards... The REAL Cost for a Custom IC Scott Elder, Senior Analog IC Design Consultant, 5/14/2013 Comment now 38 comments There have been lots of blogs and messages lately about designing a proprietary analog IC. I wrote a blog about doing it on the cheap for $3,000. Reid Wender posted a message about prototyping 200 parts using a reconfigurable IC for $10,000. Most recent post, goafrit2, 5/20/2013 9:56:08 AM >> Cloud might be associated to S/W and H/W. Cloud is never being avoided... Everything’s Better After the First Explosion Barry Harvey, Intersil Fellow, 5/13/2013 Comment now 31 comments I'd like to take a few minutes to address the fear of power circuits and the great relief of successfully repairing the first screw-up of a project. Here is an example. Most recent post, WKetel, 5/19/2013 6:03:01 PM The strongest shock that I got was while pressing the reset buoon on a STD buss... Crack Open One of These Books, Part 1 Brad Albing, Editor in Chief, 5/13/2013 Comment now 24 comments After Bill Schweber wrote about cracking open a design book in Go Offline & Crack Open a Design Book, I looked through my bookshelf and came up with a few design books that had influenced me, although, interestingly, were more manufacturers' data and applications books. Most recent post, antedeluvian, 5/17/2013 8:47:40 AM Brad I have said this elsewhere (on the Connecting Edge, most recently)... Next 5 blogs+ All blogs All blogs most commented 38 The REAL Cost for a Custom IC Scott Elder, Senior Analog IC Design Consultant, 5/14/2013 7 (Dis)Integrating Power Consumption, Counterintuitively Len Sherman, Senior Scientist, Maxim Integrated, 5/16/2013 7 Thermocouple Nodules, Cold Junctions & Integration Opportunities Dennis Feucht, Electronics Engineer, 5/17/2013 3 When the Going Gets Tough... Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant, 5/16/2013 3 When Are You Done With Verification? Brian Bailey, Independent Consultant, 5/17/2013 blog roll message boards chat 5/20/2013 8:42:51 PM TCs are key: Having a good fundamental understanding of thermocouples is critical for work in clean rooms for the fabrication of microchips. Nearly all process tools have some sort of Tc for temp measurement and their accuracy often dictates the performance... analoging on Thermocouple Nodules, Cold Junctions & Integration Opportunities 5/20/2013 8:37:49 PM quantum computing: Sandia National Lab is one of the leaders in developing quantum computers. The theory is still not perfectly understood which has held back its progress over the last couple decades. I visited a Sandia qc lab in the late 1990s and the... analoging on Operations per Joule 5/20/2013 10:29:39 AM IGBT - IR TOOL SEARCH: International Rectifiers, Announces new tool to search for IGBTs below link to the search engine: http://igbttool.irf.com/IGBTSelect/ByFilters/en-US Maciel on IGBT - IR TOOL SEARCH 5/20/2013 10:18:28 AM Analog Organic: Very interesting this comparison between the analog and digital worlds, from the perspective of energy efficiency. This makes me wonder, what should be the resolution (in bits) that an ADC should have in order to translate... Dirceu Rodrigues Jr on Operations per Joule 5/20/2013 9:56:08 AM Re: Test: >> Cloud might be associated to S/W and H/W. Cloud is never being avoided in the future. It is easy to see how CS has influenced EE. When we think of cloud and how to use it in hardware development, one must still remember that... goafrit2 on The REAL Cost for a Custom IC 5/20/2013 9:53:39 AM Re: Custom ICs are possible in low volumes: >> A strong motivator for doing a custom IC is to reduce the system BOM cost. Certainly in systems where you are replacing $1 standard parts, it may not make sense, but in more complex systems where you can replace several $20/$30/$40... goafrit2 on The REAL Cost for a Custom IC 5/20/2013 9:50:25 AM Re: Test: >> It takes a strong willed test engineer with a good historical notebook and the willingness to keep asking I am a designer and unfortunately, I hate it when testers begin to "pester" me when I am still looking for a design... goafrit2 on The REAL Cost for a Custom IC 5/20/2013 9:47:58 AM Re: Test: >> Anyone seeing that as a trend? I think it is a global pattern. Testers are never seen as key elements of development process despite the fact that testing consumes more than half of some production costs. goafrit2 on The REAL Cost for a Custom IC 5/20/2013 9:46:40 AM Re: Oh, the i(c)rony: >> Write some digital design tools and then sell services over the internet. Very good direction for getting electronics business going in the developing world. Yet, the problem is that at the end, the digital must still run on... goafrit2 on The REAL Cost for a Custom IC 5/20/2013 8:58:25 AM Re: Design centers : @analoging you're right US has become the "primier design center" for semiconductor industry( and it still). But emerging threats like globalization and rising competitors (China and India) makes life miserable for most US semiconductors companies,... Netcrawl on When Are You Done With Verification? 5/20/2013 12:29:03 AM Re: Temperature limits: @DaeJ--I think you are overstating the "problem" with thermocouples. For qualification testing in Automotive, if good/no good depends on better than 1 degree resolution then you are putting a product on the market at high risk. Most... eafpres on Thermocouple Nodules, Cold Junctions & Integration Opportunities 5/19/2013 6:03:01 PM Re: A fundamental goof, allright, a big one, too.: The strongest shock that I got was while pressing the reset buoon on a STD buss controller card rack. That happened because the disconnrct switch was directly above it on the panel, (thanks, John C.), and the hookup was tempoary, so it was... WKetel on Everything’s Better After the First Explosion Next 5 messages+ All messages All messages blog roll message boards chat 4/11/2013 4:14:10 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: So I found these awesome Current Sensors but I don't know how effective they are. Help! here's the link <a href="http://www.magnelab.com/products/Current-Voltage-Sensors/three-phase-ropect%C2%AE-ac-current-sensor-rogowski-coil-rcs-1800">rogowski... SGreenovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:20:07 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Good closing comment Steve. Thanks Steve and Bruce for joining the chat. Brad Albing Blogger 1/16/2013 2:16:59 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Gotta run guys---I really would love to do this again! I'm off to a conference call to pick the brain of another expert for an upcoming article---Once we think we know everything and cannot learn anything new----we are lost! SteveTaranovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:13:49 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Farhood Moraveji, technical director at TI commented to me, "Kludge boxes were a necessity in that test equipment did not exist that could measure the performance of the IC. These boxes often used some clever measurement tricks, which would... SteveTaranovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:09:46 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Erroll Dietz said this about early IC designers, "Using design rules that they made up as they went along, these designers worked from transistor-kit parts, used copper-clad breadboards with sockets as design tools, and employed discrete resistors... SteveTaranovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:07:26 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Right---"Figuring things out" shows good engineering thinking---I like that approach from that blog SteveTaranovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:03:41 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: You might be interested in this blog, back a few months... http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/thesignal/archive/2012/09/24/interview-questions-memorable-times-on-both-sides.aspx Bruce Trump Newbie 1/16/2013 2:03:11 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Experience and practice under the tutelage of a good mentor is critical SteveTaranovich Newbie 1/16/2013 2:02:33 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: It's difficult to teach an engineer to have an intuitive understanding. Brad Albing Blogger 1/16/2013 2:01:34 PM Join us for a chat: Imparting knowledge sometimes lost in the past to our fellow engineers: Synthesis ability comes from real experience and practice that they don't get at undergrad level. The genesis, I believe, is an intuitive understanding of how circuits work. 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