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...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | San Tan Valley, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | | |...
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Wire bonding gold on pcb
So I was sending out a little prototype pcb to advanced circuits. I need to be able to wire bond to the pcb pads. And the wire bonding guy I talked with said to get gold. Well there's more than one...
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A 2.4GHz to 1.5 GHz down converter layout, and VCO internals.
A 2.4GHz to 1.5 GHz down converter Channel 9 Wifi wireless access point spectrum: WiFi channel 9 should be around 2452 MHz, and that is where I find it. Cool. This version of the xpsa spectrum...
 
Can you measure a floating voltage with a differential ADC
Can you take a "fully differential" ADC, like the LTC2442, and measure a fl oating voltage reliably with it? Or are things going to drift and get unpre dictable? I have an LTC2442 Dev board, and in...
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Optically Coupled MOSFet ??
Does anyone make an optically coupled MOSFet, Ron around 25 Ohms? All I can find are relay equivalent devices with loads of capacitance. ...Jim Thompson -- | James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog...
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optical question
We will be firing up a semiconductor laser, at a couple of watts optical output, around 1500 nm. The output will be small diameter and well collimated, so it will be dangerous. We can bolt our driver...
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snow
Any of you getting whacked by this? I wish some fraction of that would come our way.
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OT. Firing up an old computer
I'm firing up an old computer and it starts me with push F1 to continue. From there I'm in the bios setup and can't get out. I have four boxes , Setup, Security, Utility, Default. Each box has several...
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SPI protection
I have a MCU board with SPI (3.3V) connector which is driven by SPI master on another board (less than 1 ft cable). What is the best form of protection for the SPI to protect from over voltages for ex...
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(power) Outlet Strips
Hi, I need an (US) outlet strip that is capable of supporting a large number of wall warts. The cables from the wall warts should all exit in the same direction -- *normal* to the outlet strip. This...
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Coils - Optimizing Turns vs. Current
Is the magnetic field intensity of a coil directly proportional to the current applied in all cases, or does the number of turns also factor in? For example, if I feed a certain current through a thin...
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*Sun* 13W3M <-> HD15F criteria
Hi, I need to replace the bulky 13W3MM cables for my Sun boxen with "regular" HD15 cables. Anyone who has been down this path knows that it's usually not as simple as naively picking between google...
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Just sharing
Just ran across this -- I'm sure some of you may know about it but WOW ! Great fun (and it's all analog) --
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Calculatin impedances of combined transformers.
Would anyone try to educate me as to how the impeadance values are calculated when combining transformers? As in this Ben Tongue example. In the example, If pin 1 of the UTC 0-15 is connected to...
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