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episode 125: EP#125: The Open Source Episode with Robert Keim
- Robert Keim
- A graduate from the University of California of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
- Technical Director for All About Circuits
- Extensive experience in a wide variety of fields, including
- Analog design
- Firmware development
- Digital signal processing
- Power management
- Motor control
- Digital camera design
- Low-noise PCB layout
- System integration
- Designing for harsh environments
- Neural networks
- Software-defined radios
- Role of open source information in the EE community
- What does Open Source mean to you?
- Robert: Knowledge, that originates from labor and is freely available. True acquisition of knowledge.
- Parker: A tool for learning - seeing how things were made and creating your own version
- Stephen: More emphasis on knowledge and understanding vs the execution
- What does Open Source mean to you?
- Do you think that open source projects can be a long term financial success, or are they a social movement and more about bringing knowledge and functionality to the community?
- Version control for PCBs and how that workflow may differ from software version control
- How you would collaborate with multiple Electrical Engineers on a single PCB (schematic and layout)?
- What's one of your favorite articles that you wrote for All About Circuits and why? The Clean Power Series - decoupling capacitors
- Favorite Microcontroller/Development Board/Toolchain
- Where do you see EDA tools in 5 years? Least favorite EDA tool?
Tags: All About Circuits, electronics podcast, MacroFab, macrofab engineering podcast, MEP, Open Source, Podcast, Rober Keim