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most recent messages 9/19/2017 12:08:46 AM D Feucht One practical engineering reason for crashing the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn was the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) onboard, which runs on plutonium. Better to contain it to Saturn... blogs message boards chat NASA Cassini spacecraft crashes into Saturn: A failure or a calculated success? Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 9/18/2017 Comment now 1 Comment After 20 years in the cold void of space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft ran out of fuel and crashed into Saturn. This sounds like a very expensive failure by NASA----but it is NOT!, here's why: Most recent post, D Feucht, 9/19/2017 12:08:46 AM One practical engineering reason for crashing the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn... A New Trilogy of LTSpice Circuits With NTC Thermistors, PART II: LTSpice Simulation of PID Temperature Control of a Peltier Thermoelectric Element With a NTC Thermistor Alain Stas, Product Marketing Engineer for Non-Linear Resistors at Vishay Intertechnology, 9/16/2017 Comment now 1 Comment Although it is common knowledge that their efficiency is poor, Peltier thermoelectric elements are considered the most versatile cooling elements; they are used in a wide range of applications, such as laser diode cooling systems or portable fridge coolers, as well as automotive thermoelectric generators. Most recent post, kapitanbumi, 9/18/2017 11:41:34 PM I have to thank you for the efforts you have put in writing this site. I really... Did We Teach China to Steal Technology? Bob Frostholm, Director of Marketing & Sales, JVD, 9/14/2017 Comment now 2 comments There seems to be a new headline every week or so about some company in China selling a knock off copycat version of someone else's product. One that caught my attention was in Forbes magazine entitled How A Chinese Automaker Can Clone Porsche And Still Get Away With It. It's really worth checking out if for no other reason than to look at the pictures. Most recent post, steve.taranovich, 9/18/2017 2:12:40 PM Hi Victor, I like that phrase! At least the phrase is an act of creativity by you.... Lessons from the trash can: Wrong power supply polarity. Victor Lorenzo, Senior Digital and Analog Development Engineer, Consultant, 9/14/2017 Comment now 3 comments In my previous post, Lessons from the trash can., I introduced the idea of creating the Planet Analog Lessons Learn Knowledge Collection. This time I will share a short story around what could probably be the most common mistake that waits out there for catching our fingers. This affair taught me more than one lesson, for this reason I have chosen to put ... Most recent post, Victor Lorenzo, 9/17/2017 12:35:06 PM Yes Aubrey, I agree with you. I think that during the first checks round we are... Pulling an All-Nighter Jonathan Harris, Product Applications Engineer, Analog Devices, 9/13/2017 Comment now 2 comments Do you recall those days in college when a project or assignment was due and you had to pull an all-nighter to get it finished by the due date? Perhaps it was because you procrastinated and waited until the last minute to get started on it. Maybe it was because you just had a really tough time with it and started running out of time to finish it. At ... Most recent post, jonharris0, 9/14/2017 7:31:02 AM Thanks for the great comments Steve. I have been fortunate in my engineering career... The Shape of Electronics Expertise Dennis Feucht, Electronics Engineer, 9/11/2017 Comment now 2 comments As we progress in our acquisition of electronics skills, we occasionally reflect on the "shape" that our knowledge and skills are taking. This article is an overview of basic decisions that "sculpt" our know-how and some of the consequences of the shape of it. Most recent post, Victor Lorenzo, 9/11/2017 1:40:57 PM The class-B push-pull transformer isolated power amplifier was very popular in portable... Longing for the pure sport: Latest electronics technology in professional football and baseball Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 9/10/2017 Comment now 3 comments I am a purist when it comes to professional baseball and football as far as keeping the traditional fundamentals of these sports as they were originally created around 140 to 170 years ago. (The first officially recorded baseball game was played in 1846 and it was in 1880 when Rugby was morphed into American Football). I know that I need to be realistic ... Most recent post, steve.taranovich, 9/16/2017 5:48:21 PM All good points Vince---I totally agree---the quality of many umpires and Referees... Signal Chain Basics #128: Optimizing solenoid control with precision current measurement Dan Harmon, Current Sensing Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments, 9/9/2017 Comment now 6 comments Beyond simple on/off use cases, you'll find linear solenoids in many applications requiring precise linear motion and the regulation of pressure, fluid or air. Automotive applications include automatic transmission controls, electronic fuel injectors, or electronic stability control actuators. Non-automotive examples include critical medical applications ... Most recent post, DHarmon, 9/15/2017 3:56:33 PM Thanks for reading and highlighting your patent. Regards, Dan Rarely Asked Questions—Issue 144: Accelerometer Tilt Measure Over Temperature and in the Presence of Vibration Chris Murphy, Applications engineer, Analog Devices, 9/7/2017 Comment now QUESTION: The e-health program, a new approach to health care, by utilizing electronic technology, Part 2 Busy Blogger, Busy Blogger, 9/6/2017 Comment now Electronics technology holds promise to become very effective in saving lives of people by preventing cardiac arrest by means of an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) that, in the case of an arrest event being detected, will provide an electrical discharge able to restart the electrical activity of the affected heart: NASA KSC Launch Control Complex (LCC): An Exclusive view on EDN and Planet Analog Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 9/4/2017 Comment now Editor Steve Taranovich is NASA Kennedy Space Center KSC) Launch Director? How did that happen? Next 5 blogs+ All blogs All blogs most commented 3 Lessons from the trash can: Wrong power supply polarity. Victor Lorenzo, Senior Digital and Analog Development Engineer, Consultant, 9/14/2017 2 Did We Teach China to Steal Technology? Bob Frostholm, Director of Marketing & Sales, JVD, 9/14/2017 2 Pulling an All-Nighter Jonathan Harris, Product Applications Engineer, Analog Devices, 9/13/2017 1 A New Trilogy of LTSpice Circuits With NTC Thermistors, PART II: LTSpice Simulation of PID Temperature Control of a Peltier Thermoelectric Element With a NTC Thermistor Alain Stas, Product Marketing Engineer for Non-Linear Resistors at Vishay Intertechnology, 9/16/2017 1 NASA Cassini spacecraft crashes into Saturn: A failure or a calculated success? Steve Taranovich, Editor-in-Chief, Planet Analog, 9/18/2017 blog roll message boards chat 9/19/2017 12:08:46 AM Why Crash Cassini into Saturn?: One practical engineering reason for crashing the Cassini spacecraft into Saturn was the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) onboard, which runs on plutonium. Better to contain it to Saturn than pollute a viable future colony of a moon... D Feucht on NASA Cassini spacecraft crashes into Saturn: A failure or a calculated success? 9/18/2017 11:41:34 PM Interesting News!: I have to thank you for the efforts you have put in writing this site. I really hope to view the same high-grade content by you later on as well. In fact, your creative writing abilities has encouraged me to get my own, personal website now... kapitanbumi on A New Trilogy of LTSpice Circuits With NTC Thermistors, PART II: LTSpice Simulation of PID Temperature Control of a Peltier Thermoelectric Element With a NTC Thermistor 9/18/2017 2:12:40 PM Re: Is it clone?: Hi Victor, I like that phrase! At least the phrase is an act of creativity by you. China should follow your example and try to be more creative. In my visits to China as an apps engineer, I met some very talented electronics engineers. They... steve.taranovich on Did We Teach China to Steal Technology? 9/17/2017 12:48:48 PM Is it clone?: I have seen several diferent and also humorous ways of making references to what you call "steal technology". I think I've coined one for one method of software cracking (piracy): "Evaluation periode extension". Years ago one Chineese distributor... Victor Lorenzo on Did We Teach China to Steal Technology? 9/17/2017 12:35:06 PM Re: Don't check your own. Try to find someone else: Yes Aubrey, I agree with you. I think that during the first checks round we are very conscious of what we are doing and pay as much attention as we can. But as we look at the circuit for one second time, third time, and so on, we somehow start... Victor Lorenzo on Lessons from the trash can: Wrong power supply polarity. 9/16/2017 5:48:21 PM Re: "Sign" of the times: All good points Vince---I totally agree---the quality of many umpires and Referees are not what it used to be----but inevitably they will make human errors000that's part of the game, but inconsistencies in their calls and judgement is just... steve.taranovich on Longing for the pure sport: Latest electronics technology in professional football and baseball 9/16/2017 9:20:11 AM "Sign" of the times: Electronics-wise, I agree. On the other hand, the umpires could be at least more uniform in their calling of balls and strikes. And I especially do not take kindly to the umpires modifying their own personal ball-and-strike zones on a night-to-night... vbiancomano on Longing for the pure sport: Latest electronics technology in professional football and baseball 9/15/2017 4:33:32 PM Don't check your own. Try to find someone else: Victor Sometimes checking is not enough- as you mention you need someone else to check. Looking at your own work, you are often blind to your mistakes. I have connected the mains to the output of a power supply on two separate occasions, once... antedeluvian on Lessons from the trash can: Wrong power supply polarity. 9/15/2017 4:21:41 PM Check 7 times: Victor, Back in the day the intel 8008 cost ~$400, when a dollar was worth a whole lot more. I remeber the lab assistant at university used to check every pin on the socket before inserting the micro. Later the Intel 8051 bondout chip would... antedeluvian on Lessons from the trash can: Wrong power supply polarity. 9/15/2017 3:56:33 PM Re: solenoid position: Thanks for reading and highlighting your patent. Regards, Dan DHarmon on Signal Chain Basics #128: Optimizing solenoid control with precision current measurement 9/15/2017 3:55:35 PM Re: The current in a solenoid does not control its position...: Thanks Hugh for clarifying and adding to my article. Regards, Dan DHarmon on Signal Chain Basics #128: Optimizing solenoid control with precision current measurement 9/14/2017 9:17:18 AM Re: Improving in 2017 - Thanks for sharing !: Hellow Scott, you shared us very interesting topic, for the item 1 and 2, I will select the 2nd one. robertiner on Improving in 2017 Next 5 messages+ All messages All messages blog roll message boards chat The followingPlanet Analogwriters are available online now! steve.taranovich Start a Chat 6/11/2017 11:10:33 AM HI: Hi i am a new user on planetanalog. Enjoy ! Mark M Newbie 4/1/2016 4:52:28 PM Truest form of a signal: I agree with your implied conclusion, although having arrived at it via a different route. To clarify, please see the blog "Where Acoustic & Analog Still Rule the Roost," posted on Planet Analog on 20 September 2013. vbiancomano Blogger 1/5/2016 12:35:33 PM Truest form of a signal: In all the rush by some to the SDR receiver technology, it seems that the view of analog receiver technology is being looked at as old and not as good. In the radio astronomy are, we have always stayed with th analog as the truest form of the... jmlras Newbie 11/19/2014 2:04:17 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : Thanks Zhenyu and Dave---see you soon---maybe at APEC? steve.taranovich Blogger 11/19/2014 2:04:05 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : Well, this has defintely been an exciting hour of discusson. Time goes fast and I do have to run to another event. Thanks a lot, Steve and everyone else. Zhenyu Yu Newbie 11/19/2014 2:03:20 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : Thanks you Steve. This was enjoyable. freedave Newbie 11/19/2014 2:02:47 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : The state machine is often a peripheral to the microcontroller so that you get the needed power management and the control through the peripheral. The state machine is certainly less flexible but the application sometimes does not require... freedave Newbie 11/19/2014 2:02:30 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : Well, I really want to thank our experts Dave Freeman and Zhenyu Yu for their participation and expertise in this session. I also want to thank our reader @Analoging for the excellent questions and comments. steve.taranovich Blogger 11/19/2014 2:02:05 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : I should have said "narrowly targeted" ... Zhenyu Yu Newbie 11/19/2014 2:00:21 PM Join us for a Digital Power chat session on November 19, 2014 at 1 PM ET (10 AM PT) : Steve, my option is that those controllers will exsit, but will focus on narrowed targeted simple digital pweor applciations becasue most other digital power applications would like to benefit more from digital power than just a simplisitic... 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