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#421 – The Legend of Kezyermas
Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer AKA Mightyohm!
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This is now our 5th Keyzermas! Check out the past ones here:
- Mightyhohm For The Holidays
- Merry Keyzermas
- The Ghost of Keyzermas Past
- Wait, Why is Jeff Glowing?
- Last year Jeff had just quit his job but has since re-joined Valve as a contractor
- Overhead
- Jeff has not joined Chris’s Consulting Forum. You can join here if you’re interested (now 100+ strong!)
- Jeff has been focusing on Signal Integrity
- It’s helpful to “Be the signal“, a visualization popularized by Eric Bogatin
- Dave things Jeff should get a video game maker to make a simulation. Maybe former guest Zach Barth of Zachtronics?
- “The Terminator”
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In his new SI role, Jeff is checking things like
- Jitter
- Eye diagrams
- And using equipment like
- VNA
- TDR
- Learn your Z transforms, kids! They’re important!
- We’ve had some great signal integrity guests on the show:
- Eric Bogatin
- Howard Johnson (though Chris completely forgot)
- Henry Ott
- Elektor started carrying mightyohm kits
- The Seattle scene for hardware has been growing. Jeff isn’t a NIMBY yet.
- The effect of recessions on new company creation
- Boeing tour
- Things that have or haven’t happened
- USB C
- TS80
- New bandwidths – 60 GHz
- Hiber and other low earth orbit satellite offerings
- Looking at the 2018 hype curve
- Jon Beri talk at HDDG about Brett Victor’s concept of “seeing spaces”
- CES trends
- Connected home
- Autobiography of Tek (think it’s “Winning with people: The first 40 years of Tektronix”)
- Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks by Tony Kordyban
- Jeff pointed out the 27 series set from Rad Lab
Thanks to Mrs Mightyohm for the picture of Jeff and my sister’s instagram account for the picture of the elf on the shelf