Circuit Break - A MacroFab Podcast

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MEP EP#260: A Couple Months Ago...

Parker

  • Homebrew going big
    • Uncle runs a brewpub down in Alvin, Tx
    • Going to help him repair and rebuild the brewery for post COVID
    • Building more electrical boxes
    • Chip shortages hit even as auto chip sales climb
      • Ford and Fiat Chrysler are temporarily closing factories due to limited supplies of electronic components that are used in displays and transmissions
      • Apple wants to make a self-driving electric car by 2024
      • VLSI Research report
        • 4th quarter auto chip sales improved by 30% over the third quarter, reaching $6.2 billion
        • Which is 11% above fourth quarter in 2019
        • Overall auto IC sales for 2020 were down about 6.4% from 2019
        • Tesla may be the best example of what happened in 2020, reaching sales of 499,000 new cars in all of 2020, an increase of 36%

          • Stephen

          • Searching for components kind of sucks sometimes. New idea for making this easier
            • Connectors
            • LDOs and other ICs
            • Simple search removal that doesn't require that the engineer perform their own logic to reach the “perfect part”
            • No More lists or excel sheets - Savable searches
            • Watch out for datasheet marketing wank…
              • TL052 precision voltage reference circuit
              • MCP1501T-30E/CHY
              • Opamp calls out max 80mA per channel and 160mA per chip...with low offset the best of all worlds!
              • Circuit works well in multiple designs but new one craps the bed
              • Got to pay attention to those charts - this is actually slightly worse than a normal opamp…..
              • Solution is to transistor buffer
                • ...more
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