EEs Talk Tech

The USB Type-C brings a lot of protocols into one physical connector, but is there room for one protocol to handle all our IO needs? Mike Hoffman and Daniel Bogdanoff sit down with high speed digital communications expert Jit Lim to find out.

USB 3.2 doubles the data rate of previous USB specs, but makes the testing process significantly harder. Find out why in this electrical engineering podcast.

USB 3.2 DOUBLES the data transfer capabilities of previous USB specifications, and could mean the end of having USB ports on just one side of your computer. Find out more in today's electrical engineering podcast with Jit Lim, Daniel Bogdanoff, and Mike Hoffman.

Kenny shares his experience debugging 800 MHz EMC issues at an unnamed engineering site. The culprit? A power supply! Sometimes, that 1:1 probe just isn't enough...

Astronaut Kay Hire answers the question: "What advice would you give to an engineer hoping to become an astronaut?"

We have surprisingly little knowledge of weather. When specifically does a cloud rain? How do these clouds form? We don't have good answers to these questions. Getting those answers is an electrical engineering problem - one that a handful of professors and NASA are solving with CubeSats.

Historically, we've used large satellites and ground-based systems to track weather patterns, but CubeSat arrays are becoming a viable option. In this episode, Daniel Bogdanoff sits down with the leading researchers in this area to hear about the challenges and advancements being made in this area.

I went for a rocket launch, and stayed for the science. Have you ever wondered what it actually takes to get a rocket into space? And why we go there at all?

Receiver testing (Rx) was never a concern for DDR design. Until now. The margin for error ran out, and now Rx testing is getting standardized. We sit down with Stephanie Rubalcava to explore the challenges of this new ground.

"I tend to not turn Tombstone on outside of the arena - it scares the crap out of me." - Ray Billings, Hardcore Robotics team captain. We sit down with BattleBots' resident bad boy to talk about the engineering behind the world's meanest fighting robots. We also talk robot carnage. Because we know you're really here for robot carnage.

Keeping specs secret is just part of the job. Getting a usable, working spec is another. Learn why JEDEC guards a spec, the basic DDR architecture, and geek out with us about the challenges of probing DDR.

Hosted by Daniel Bogdanoff and Mike Hoffman, EEs Talk Tech is a twice-monthly engineering podcast discussing tech trends and industry news from an electrical engineer's perspective.