Listen to your hosts Dave Jones & Chris Gammell talk about electronics design and the electronics industry in general. If you have any interest in electronics at all, from hobbyist/hacker/maker to engineering professional you'll find something of interest here.
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#502 – Lowest Common Denominator Design
- Dave had a recent video about selecting different op amps for the microcurrent (maintaining engineering!)
- ADI buying Maxim
- Maxim sampling policy
- Will there be a large amount of crossover parts?
- Microchip sent out a letter asking for better visibility into the backlog
- Boards with stackup
- Video about reviewing PCBs of forum member
- Chris borrowed an idea from past guest Luke Valenty about how to use pill shaped pads on the tinyfpga bx. This enables using a larger
- Process for PCBs
- “Lowest common denominator design” is the idea of choosing a PCB fab that has a very small space/trace, but only needing it for the
- smallest chip.
- CSP – Chip Scale Package
- “Putting the EV in EEVblog” (looking at electric vehicles)
- Dave bought a teardown report of the BMW i3 on Leandesign.com and it’s awesome.
- Forensic teardowns
- Intel video inside the chip fab
- We were sad to hear that Grant Imahara passed away last week. Watch his former co-host Adam Savage talk about memories of Grant.
Image from this video about fractions