Re: Photodiode amplifier noise


On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:01:10 -0400, Phil Hobbs
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Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:51:34 -0700, John Larkin
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 09:32:54 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
[snip]
Could it be that there just aren't a lot of good discrete circuit
designers around? I would hate to think that.

That is most definitely the case :-(

OTOH, this puts bread on the table around here ...

Most people can be adequate carpenters or painters or cooks. Not many
people, even with engineering or physics degrees, can be decent
circuit designers.

That's sort of weird. I guess circuit design is really more art and
instinct than science.

John

Absolutely! I was a circuit designer _before_ I trotted off to MIT.
The education only honed my capabilities.

...Jim Thompson

Ditto. Except that I never took a circuits course. ;)

I had ONE course in transistors... Germanium... how to bias without
thermal run-away ;-)

You didn't have a course in passive circuit theory and analysis?


The difference between an art and a science is that in science the
answer is out there waiting to be found, and we can all agree when we
find it (at least after all the people emotionally invested in incorrect
positions have decently died off).

Like AGW ?:-)


In an art, there are different ways of doing things that are more or
less equally good, it's unclear whether there's really a single best
answer, and the results depend a lot on the personality of the artist.
Not all valid questions are scientific ones, by a long shot.

By these definitions, troubleshooting is a science and design is an art.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I'm not sure about your last statement. I tend to think in a language
called "circuits", so I'm really good at debugging... even by remote.
Ask the Stheno guys ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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