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#453 – Vertically Integrated Design Engineering
- Chris is trying to making a remote controlled blinky thing for < $1
- Dave suggested the Padouk $0.03 microcontroller, which now has a C compiler (read more about it on the EEVblog forum)
- (Chris later remembered Samy has a talk about lighting up balloons)
- Mike Harrison on Embedded.fm discussing PICs
- Switching costs
- Chris will be at Chaos Camp this year!
- Shahriar reviews the Deepace VNA
- RF layout book
- Difference from SI
- Routing requirements
- Spectrum analyzer
- TI’s Antenna Selection Guide
- Where do we store files
- Dave has been dealing with isolated power and data on usupply
- Chris really enjoyed Kate Tempkin’s talk about USB
- TS80 can only power from USB quick charge and not PD
- Dave giving a talk on solar roadways
- Chris will be (is currently) helping past guest of the show Joe Fitzpatrick doing hardware training at Black Hat.
- Alibaba is working on a homegrown chip based on the RISC V architecture
- More focus on RISC V is a small silver lining of the trade war.
- Russian chips from back in the day, 74 series
- RISC V from scratch
- Chris was on a 3M podcast talking about his excitement around RISC V and open toolchains.
- LCSC is getting investment, which means its less interesting as a point of insight into Chinese branded chips..
- Dave got back from celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. He has been publishing videos over on his EEVdiscover channel.
- Aria tracking planes
- Dave and Chris did an episode while driving to Canberra to visit the DSN.
- You can listen and watch along the Apollo 11 launch in “realtime”
- Dave highly recommends watching the Apollo 11 movie at an iMAX.
Thanks to Suzanne Nilsson for the image of the ladder