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#607 – The Joulescope Upgrade with Matt Liberty

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Matt Liberty returns to The Amp Hour to talk about the upgraded Joulescope (model JS220) and the trials and tribulations it’s been to build a new device during the chip shortage.

#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.

#522 – High Current Power Supplies with Fredrik Kensander

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Fredrik Kensander of KraftPowercon joins Chris to talk about creating very high current output power supplies used for things like plating copper onto circuit boards (and many other industrial applications). They discuss firmware, processors, power output stages, system architecture and more!

#491 – The Almighty Dollarydoo

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This week Dave and Chris discuss funding hardware companies, connectors, how to teach electronics by talking about current, LED characteristics, modularity, arcade games 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).

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