Super duper hype fast FET driver?

You da boss, so you can do that :-)

At least that's what George Jefferson said after he opened his chain of cleaning stores and moved into that ritzy apartement.

Presumably krw wouldn't know about John Christy and Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, and wouldn't understand the significance of their antics if he did.

I don't have much ignorance to be shy about, and krw has an over-supply

- for one thing he doesn't appreciate how little he actually knows.

solution,

A second-source for the Motorola/ON-Semiconductor originals ... Jim-out-of-touch-reality-Thompson will probably tell us that his versions are actually improved second-sources, which might even be true whenever AZMicrotek have a better process than Motorola.

Sadly, as Hericalitus might have said if he had lived long enough, successive batches of chips never go through exactly the same process.

The University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) has a certain fame amongst people who are persuaded by the evidence for anthropogenic global warming. Two of the researchers there - Spencer and Christy - were a bit slow to correct their satellite data for orbital decay, and for a while their uncorrected figures deviated from the predictions of the climate models.

Roy Spencer is a card-carrying fundamentalist, and John Christy has spent time as a bi-vocatiinal mission-pastor. This may - in part - explain why they are two of the nine top climate scientists (out of the top 300) who aren't persuaded by the evidence for anthropogenic global warming. Maybe they think a loving God couldn't be that mean.

Their kind of expertise can't entirely be relied on

Unfortunately, that kind of belief can gnaw at the foundations as well as shaking the rafters.

Kidding? Sloman? No, just ignorant.

John

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The AZ version of the 100ELT21 is actually a lot better than the original Moto design, in the sense that the Moto arguably had a bug and the AZ didn't. I actually did some comparative measurements for the guys at AZ, because I had a scope that could measure ps jitter, and they didn't.

Jim is a jerk, but if anybody is out of touch about IC design, it isn't him: it's you.

Fathead.

John

If I owned a fortune cookie factory that was about to be closed, I think the temptation to put "special" fortunes in the final batches would be irresistable..

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

So John Larkin proves to be just as ignorant as krw - with less excuse.

We've taken him through the antics of those Baptist climate experts - Roy Spencer and John Christy - at the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH), in this forum, and not that long ago, and he still didn't get the reference.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I concede that even Jim could come up with something better than a design with a bug in it, though it might have helped if he'd known about the bug before he started his design.

That doesn't say anything good about AZMicrotek. Back around 1990 I persuaded Cambridge Instruments to buy a decent Tek sampling scope to measure sub-nanosecond jitter - we were paying the earth for Gigabit Logic's GaAs logic, and even our managers could be persuaded the you needed measuring gear that could see if it was meeting its specification. The kind of cheapskates who would skimp on measuring gear capable of doing proper quality control on what they were making aren't going to hire the best linear designer in the business, but the cheapest ...

I've never claimed to be in touch with IC design, but I've used some of the ICs Jim designed and I didn't like them much.

Not quite a fat-headed as someone who could miss a reference to Roy Spencer and John Christy at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

You trash the entire state, including a major center of military and aerospace technology, because you disagree with a couple of guys at some university.

Bigot. Useless ass.

John

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It's not just me that disagrees with them. Their behaviour was scandalously bad.

I don't get bigoted about Baptists, unless they let their religion discourage them from doing their job right. It takes Seventh Day Adventists and Exclusive Bretheren to get me even mildly excited. The town where I grew up had an odd enthusiasm for extreme branches of protestant christianity, which - I later found out - gave it the highest incidence of illegitimate children in Australia. According to the Methodist theology student who told me the story, the incidence of pregnancy outside wedlock was much the same as in the rest of the country, but the when the loving couple went to incompatible churches, they weren't allowed to get married. Later on I heard that the town also had the highest incidence of child-bashing ...

Not all that useful perhaps, but - sadly for you - not an ass.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

There is (or used to be) a company in SF that specialized in "special" racy fortunes. They were pretty much unknown until a batch made it to a school ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Joerg

The subject is fast fet drivers. Just who is being ignorant here?

No, *your* behavior is scandalously bad. And scandalously boring.

We were having a perfectly congenial conversation about fast fet drivers, fast electronics in general, seasoned with the usual engineer-guy thread drift, and you, having nothing useful or pleasant to contribute (as usual) start your mean-spirired (as usual) bigoted (as usual) AGW nonsense, as usual.

What a sour ass you are. Maybe you were bashed too much as a child.

John

expecting the usual off-topic rant multiply ratio...

A group of us used to get togther from time to time to eat inexpensive meals at a faux Chinese restaurant where they handed out fortune cookies (that was a few years ago when they were not sealed in plastic). They had lucky numbers and a "learn Chinese" bit on the back that was a bit error-prone, but I digress.. I made up a very authentic-looking fortune with Photoshop and a color laser printer and snuck it into one physicist's cookie and made sure he got the special one. It said something like "(really obscure specialty) will cause you nothing but misery". It had been a technically frustrating morning for him.. and the somewhat delayed reaction was priceless. ;-)

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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You do tell me this from time to time. I don't see much reason to take you seriously.

Right - it drifted away from the area where you can pose (tolerably convincingly) as a state of the art expert, and you suddenly felt flattery-deprived.

Joerg was making a point about moving into an even more rural area than he occupies a the moment, and I made the point - made rather better in "Freakonomics" - that high-tech is easier in big conurbations. I throw in a joke about Alabama Baptists - playing on the well-known fact that he is active in his local church - and get a civilised response from him.

krw then poisons the thread with personal abuse - as is his habit - and I gave him the Spenser and Christy response, which he deserved.

Then you jump in on krw's side. You may like his politics, but he's got nothing else to recommend him, and you equally deservedly got the same put-down.

I wasn't bashed as a child. My parents did get married - Congregationists do marry Methodists (not that my parents took the churches that they been brought up in all that seriously) and didn't have any resentments to take out on their kids. I didn't get on with some of my age-mates and some were silly enough to try physical violence, but I could give at least as good as I got, and nobody got noticeably hurt or intimidated.

You resent it when your own attempts at bullying get acid responses. Pity about that.

Think of it as enlarged opportunity for you to indulge yourself in text-chopping and smart-ass one-liners. It's a pity that you aren't much good at this kind of word-play, but you don't let that stop you.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

You seem to be rather desparate to get yet another AGW debate going, aren't you? Forget it, since climategate nobody is interested much anymore.

BTW, it's not a university that matters, it's the employers that are already in the area.

My faith is my foundation and it is unshakeable. Nothing you can do about that :-)

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Far from it. It was just a handy fact to drop on krw in reaction to him calling me ignorant, which counts as gratuitous abuse in my book.

Climategate just illustrated that climate scientists get upset when some denialist saboteur manages to smuggle a totally inadequate paper into the peer-reviewed literature. When it turned out that the action editor had ignored four peer reviews telling him that the paper was crap, and the publisher refused to dump the - denialist - action editor, most of the editorial board of the journal resinged in protest.

The denialist lobby seized on the e-mails that covered the nuts and bolts of the University of East Anglia finding out what had been done and telling people about it, as if it was some sort of evil conspiracy, when in fact it was just the peer-review mechanism in error-correction mode.

It was just one more denialist campaign to persuade the general public to distrust good scientific information which doesn't happen to suit the financial interests of the fossil-carbon extraction industry. The fact that you haven't realised that climategate was pure denialist propaganda is a tribute to the effectiveness of the propaganda machine

- and a worrying indicator of the effectiveness of paid advertising in moulding public opinion.

And the potential employees that they've got to work with.

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It's not your foundations that I'm worried about, it's the foundations of the science that you - indirectly - rely on to make your money. If your sub-contradtors were to reject experimental evidence because they thought that the results didn't fit with their - say, anti-abortion - theology you could eventually find yourself in serious trouble with the FDA.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

So why did you do it in response to my post? Not that I'd mind, just curious.

Read some of the more juicy emails again. Have you forgotten? Or purged from your mind because it doesn't jibe with your mantra? It couldn't have gotten any more damaging than that (for warmingists).

For the record, I am against abortion and if someone wanted me to work on some device that is used in that area I will refuse. It is my right to do so.

Abortion keeps the liberal population down ;-)

However I did decline participating in the new integrated circuit radio design for the Claymore Mine. Opting instead to develop chips for the soldier's helmet radio system. ...Jim Thompson