Re: Job Description(s)

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 11:22:23 -0700, John Larkin
<jjSNIPlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:10:18 -0700, Jim Thompson
><thegreatone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:59:59 GMT, Active8 <reply2group@xxxxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 15:04:32 GMT, Genome wrote:
>>>
>>>> <QUOTE>
>>>> Our client requires an Electronics engineer - power supply design with
>>>> the
>>>> following skills: SMPS, power, supply, design, engineer, electronics,
>>>> engineering, switch mode, jobs
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>>Ok. Be a sub-head-hunter. Get us a good enough price, help me over
>>>the technical and political hurdles, and what ever is left after
>>>expenses (nothing extravagant), we'll split 50/50. I'll do the rest
>>>of the work and slap the *** out of them while you sit back, laugh,
>>>and write the narration. I'd love to meet 'em. Life experience.
>>>
>>>An unusual opportunity indeed. WTF does "parallisation across LINUX
>>>clusters" and such have to do with SMPS? And where do you find
>>>photocopier dealers with PS engineers?
>>>>
>>>> <RANT>
>>><snip nice rant>
>>>> </RANT>
>>>
>>>I believe I programmed my mind to make you and Jim show up and make
>>>my day. Thanks for expressing the brutal reality in a way that
>>>probably only you can do.
>>>
>>>Jim posted:
>>>I was not hired... "lack of experience" ;-)
>>>
>>> ...Jim Thompson
>>>I'm really rolling on the floor now. Experience at what, taking the
>>>shaft sans lubricant?
>>
>>PLL's (I'm practically one of the first in the field).
>>
>>They were all PhD's looking for platitudes about jitter and phase
>>noise. They didn't seem to like my pointing out that there's no pat
>>mathematical answer... you have to characterize the parts first.
>>
>> ...Jim Thompson
>
>
>Hey Jim,
>
>I need a phase/frequency detector that I can toss into an FPGA. It's
>just to lock a 10 MHz VCXO to an external input... not outrageously
>demanding. I could just crib the detector out of the old 4046, except
>that it tends to have some deadband (which the external resistor trick
>can fix); or I could copy the logic of the Analog Devices 9901, except
>that they patented the damned thing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>John


Somewhere along the way I posted a PFD made of a dual-D and a
quad-2-in-nand that works pretty good. I'll look for it.

...Jim Thompson
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