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Dave and Chris talk through custom silicon, old Tek videos, prototyping boards, electric vehicles, and more.
#602 – Rigorous engineering stuff may be out the window
#601 – Rebuilding Projects with Dave Young
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Chris is joined by his old friend Dave Young of Young Circuits Designs (3rd appearance). They discuss consulting, the opportunity cost of learning, coaching students, managing consulting client needs, redesigning circuits, and more.
#600 – The Custodial Arts
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This week Chris and Dave talk about standardized board form factors, cellular devices, logic chips for building clocks, troubleshooting magic, and more!
#599 – An Interview with Uri Shaked (Wokwi.com)
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Uri Shaked of Wokwi.com joins Chris to talk about simulating microcontrollers and peripherals, and the challenges of making each layer of the process accurate and fast on the web.
#598 – Best way to find a leak
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Dave and Chris discuss designing for high explosive environments, how to reverse engineer products, and the rise of RISC V in the semiconductor space.
#196 – An Interview with Mike Engelhardt (Re-broadcast)
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This is a re-broadcast of the original episode #196, where we interviewed Mike Engelhardt, the creator of LTSpice. Mike is no longer at Linear Technology, and Linear Technology is no longer a company (now part of Analog Devices), but the simulator is still awesome!
#597 – Wow, Dave REALLY likes Top Gun
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This week we discuss hardware engineers moving to software, the impacts of funding on the chip industry, long term crowdfunding campaign, and why Top Gun is awesome.
#596 – Capacitor Schoopage with Ron Demcko from AVX
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSSAVX Fellow and 40 year capacitor industry legend Ron Demcko joins Dave to discuss film capacitor failures and capacitor technology. This episode is best viewed in video format on the Amp Hour Youtube channel, as Ron and Dave discuss slides and photos in this video […]
#595 – Trade Show or Conference?
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What’s the difference between a trade show and a conference? Chris returns from Embedded World (with COVID) and discusses with Dave, who is NOT going to start DaveCon. Also other news in the electronics space.
Schools out for (a couple weeks of) summer
We’re relaxing and taking the summer easy (extra easy for Dave, where it’s winter), so two weeks of no episodes. We should be back next week with a fresh one.