Re: Which university produces good analog EEs?

Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:14:37 GMT, the renowned Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


What's the old saying? If they only learn how to use a hammer every problem will begin to look like a nail. Heck, I've seen one-shots being done with a uC. That almost made me sick.


It makes me sick to see a trimpot used where one could use a cheap
micro with a *calibrated* RC oscillator on-chip and get 2-3%
guaranteed accuracy over temperature. The extra gates are just to make
this on-chip *analog* oscillator do what you want. ;-)


No trimpots in my designs. At least not in the last 20+ years. Watch crystals and resonators are dirt cheap and the 4060 is, too. For faster stuff I often use NTSC color carrier crystals but I guess that party is going to be over when the US goes digital. Not looking forward to that. Darn, I though it'd last until I retire.

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Regards, Joerg

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