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#579 – ADC Chip Design with Anthony Wall

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Anthony Wall–PhD design student at Tyndall in Cork, Ireland–joins Chris to talk about the ADC he is designing based on a “current-starved ring oscillator”. A deep dive into mixed signal chip design, the Irish chip industry, and having your silicon manufactured.

#502 – Lowest Common Denominator Design

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This week Dave and Chris discuss detailed teardowns of EVs, choosing PCB fabrication based on minimum tolerances, PCB stackup, large chip companies merging, and the untimely passing of an engineering icon.

#459 – An Interview with Tom Lee

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Tom Lee is a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and the head of the Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits lab. He also is the author of Planar Microwave Engineering, a text about RFIC design. He joins Chris to chat about scopes, Maxwell’s equations, and a lot more.

#452 – An Interview with Kieran O’Leary

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Kieran O’Leary joins Chris to talk about consulting, EMC testing, Signal Integrity issues, working as an application engineer and a lot more!

#371 – An Interview With Joe Bamberg

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Joe Bamberg joins Chris to talk about monitoring power usage via power monitoring chips (while at ADI) and larger signal processing techniques (now at Sense).

#271 – Amazon Moves In, Dave Says Run

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Amazon getting into the IoT space prompts Dave to call the game for everyone else. Also chip mergers, die shrinks, end of life parts, conferences and more!

#254 – An Interview with Andreas Olofsson – Adapteva’s Ampliative Abacus

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Andreas Olofsson joins us to talk about massively parallel computing using a $99 development platform. We talk FPGAs, processor offloading, kickstarter, getting started, shuttle runs in fabs and more!

#185 – An Interview with Hank Zumbahlen – Zoppa Zumbahlen Zateticism

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Analog veteran Hank Zumbahlen joins Chris and Michael Ossmann to talk about ground planes, ADCs, Accelerometers, Isolators, 7 pole filters and more!

#49 – Analog Devices, Design Spark – Unusual Usenet Usurpation

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Dave and Chris discuss the runaround of finding a new analog to digital converter and how USENET groups can be helpful.

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