Didier Juges, Principal Engineer, Crane Aerospace & Electronics, 5/17/2012 Comment now 17 comments
As far back as I can remember, my father was always tinkering with electronics (we called it radio at the time). He was an engineer by profession, but he was a nerd before there were nerds.
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Previously, I wrote about (and showed you) some of my early electronics projects and experiences, and you shared some of yours. Let's continue, shall we?
As engineers, we do our best to keep with the times and up to date with new technology. We're always checking out the latest sleek new part from the semiconductor guys, reading about new technologies or new ways to solve design challenges, or drooling over the latest 400GHz oscilloscope. But what about our latest design? Is obsolescence considered during ...
In a recent blog, Michael Dunn discussed some aspects of differential transmission lines. One of my replies detailed the textbook equations I used in an Excel spreadsheet 12 years ago, before free online impedance calculators became so prolific. Our prototype boards were measured to be within 2 percent of the calculated impedance, whereas a commercially ...
A friend and I were recently talking about Scope Junction, and when she realized how long I'd been fooling with electronics, she immediately suggested writing about the things I'd got up to in my misspent youth. Who am I to argue? And, we want to hear about your experiences too, so start digging through those memories, whether they're only a few ...
3/29/2012 - The Mixed Domain Oscilloscopes or MDO4000 from Tektronix represent a new paradigm in instrumentation. The MDO is designed specifically to make time correlated measurements between digital, analog, and RF signals simultaneously in both the time and frequency domain. For the first time, an engineer now has an integrated tool to analyze complex RF behavior that has been difficult to verify with separate instruments.
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