Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer AKA Mightyohm!
This is now our 5th Keyzermas! Check out the past ones here:
Mightyhohm For The Holidays
Merry Keyzermas
The Ghost of Keyzermas Past
Wait, Why is Jeff Glowing?
Last year Jeff had just quit his job but has since re-joined Valve as a contractor
Overhead
Jeff has not joined Chris's Consulting Forum. You can join here if you're interested (now 100+ strong!)
Jeff has been focusing on Signal Integrity
It's helpful to "Be the signal", a visualization popularized by Eric Bogatin
Dave things Jeff should get a video game maker to make a simulation. Maybe former guest Zach Barth of Zachtronics?
"The Terminator"
In his new SI role, Jeff is checking things like
Jitter
Eye diagrams
And using equipment likeVNA
TDR
Learn your Z transforms, kids! They're important!
We've had some great signal integrity guests on the show:Eric Bogatin
Howard Johnson (though Chris completely forgot)
Henry Ott
Elektor started carrying mightyohm kits
The Seattle scene for hardware has been growing. Jeff isn't a NIMBY yet.
The effect of recessions on new company creation
Boeing tour
Things that have or haven't happened
USB C
TS80New bandwidths - 60 GHz
Hiber and other low earth orbit satellite offerings
Looking at the 2018 hype curveJon Beri talk at HDDG about Brett Victor's concept of "seeing spaces"
CES trends
Connected home
Autobiography of Tek (think it's "Winning with people: The first 40 years of Tektronix")
Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks by Tony Kordyban
Jeff pointed out the 27 series set from Rad Lab
Thanks to Mrs Mightyohm for the picture of Jeff and my sister's instagram account for the picture of the elf on the shelf :-D