The most important changes in electronic design over the past 25 years?

Maybe for you. Unless that 'scratch' takes a hundred pounds of my vehicle with it, it gets painted. Of course, most people don't have the ability to learn to repair electronics. That includes a lot of people who design it.

Where did you put that cross made out of anti-static tubes of 555s?

And you do have a choice. Those who train their analog skills will be almost guaranteed to have work throughout their life. There is stuff that simply cannot be digitized and I find there are less and less people available in the world to deal with it.

Try a fiberoptics receiver. Or try to cram an EMC job into a micro controller. It can't be done.

To say if more bluntly, I've met quite a few software and uC guys looking for work. None of the (seasoned) analog guys I met was struggling.

Dunno. Silver-solder bullets only work on electronic werewolves.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I need to publicize my analog skills more!

No matter how fast the digital stuff gets, it'll never be fast enough for the fastest analog signals.

And no matter how versatile the digital stuff gets, you still need to get your measurements into digital-land cleanly, and you still need to apply power to some physical transducer when it's time for the digital stuff to act on the world.

Sometimes analog just wins on cost and size. One example I had was a measurement setup. Insanely expensive high-speed ADCs had been considered but nothing was good enough in terms of ENOB and dynamic range. I suggested to do this analog. "So what do we need then?" ... "Oh, not much. Caps, inductors, resistors, transistors, some RF transformers, and a directional coupler we'd have to make" ... "A WHAT?"

Lead bearing solder works great on "I were there electronic wolves', though. ;-)

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Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Though it is going to look as if it has worked, at least for a for a while.

I still have a few dozen databooks, because the old datasheets are so very much better than the newer ones.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Oh great, there goes the neighborhood!

Jamie

Yep. My data-book shelves are 7.5' wide by 6' tall. They old ones have device-level schematics, which allow me to make accurate Spice models. ...Jim Thompson

This place sometimes reminds me of a grade school playground. It was always fun to gang up on someone who dared to be a bit different, wasn't it?

Different how?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Bill, in his own words, said he was quitting SED for the foreseeable future. That is what the ghost reference was about and all the follow on comments. I am only explaining this to you so that perhaps you will use your brain before jumping to wrong conclusions that are based on your own prejudices.

I missed that, you are correct. But I've seen many previous posts of a similar nature. My original comment stands. This place is a lot like a grade school playground. "My dad can beat your dad!"

'All digital circuits are, at the end, made of analog components', Don Vonada, chief engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, about 40 years ago.

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This place is a lot like a school yard, there are lots of kids you do not care for and you find a few you like. Smart kids ignore the ones they do not care for and enjoy the experience anyhow.

Then when the smart kids get older they go to their class reunions and realize that most the kids they did not like were actually pretty decent.

The difference between this and school is you can leave. You can go find a moderated forum where they kick off abusive people. They also kick off people who do off topic. Then you start to realize that they kick off all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons. Then you may/ or may not realize that you like un-moderated forums better.

...and all analog values are quantized. ;-)

That's what the SW chief at my first POE always said, citing Max Planck.