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#611 – Grad School Time Capsule with Joshua and Zach

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This show is a before-and-after with Joshua Vasquez and Zach Fredin. A 2019 recording captured the beginning of their grad school journey and this 2022 recording details how grad school went and what they’re doing now.

#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.

#433 – An Interview with Sam Stranks

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Sam Stranks is a researcher, professor, and entrepreneur focused on making Perovskites into a commercially viable solar cell. The efficiency has been climbing at a rapid pace over the past 10 years. He joins Chris to talk about how Perovskites could lead to more prevalent (and printed!) solar cells.

#239 – An Interview with Colin O’Flynn – Aspirated Adamantine Attacks

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Colin O’Flynn joins to talk about embedded device security, using high speed ADCs to do sidechannel attacks and how to script the ChipWhisperer to crack AES256 encryption.

#22 – The Hard Work Hypothesis

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This week we discussed if there is a competitive advantage to being the squeaky wheel. And if you should bother while working for someone else.

#21 – More Freeagle, More Benches and More Engineers on Twitter

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Seasonal What is on your electronics list for the holidays? Dave and Chris both need new chairs for their labs WOTW Henrik from Oslo, Norway Bench setup and explanation. Sylvain from Belgium Bench setup for RF projects. David from Portland Portable bench setup. Taking […]

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