Re: What's the hi-side current sense chip du jour?

On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:26:20 -0700 (PDT), "miso@xxxxxxxxx"
<miso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

Other than simple op amps, Gain designs were terrible. This comes from
some stupid management that thinks all engineers are the same.

That was my observation about Millaway, as well.

I
assure you the stuff designed in the valley (Maxim HQ) was thoroughly
flogged before shipping, not that the occasional bug doesn't get
through. I don't consider anything the Arizona boys designed to be
Maxim products, but unfortunately, the Maxim brand is on their
designs.

I'm not sure if LTC still has that Singapore design center, but when
it was opened up, they sent one of their employees to run it, which
insures it was done to the valley's "home of the gurus" standards.

One thing management doesn't get is that a customer judges your
company by the crappiest stuff you are willing to put your brand on.
This should be obvious, but Dilbert is more than just a comic strip.
The old HP really understood this, and nothing they sold was junk. [If
a connector reached the outside world, it had to do 25kv ESD. If you
couldn't deliver, they would add parts to make sure that happened.
Obviously, some test instruments can't do that, but certainly their
consumer gear was done to that standard.] Carly came along and
Chinesed up the computer line with crap, and nearly sunk the company.
The current HP stuff seems to be more under control, but how do you
win back the customers that got burnt.

I just did a sweep of my PC, eliminating all the unnecessary start-up
crap. MOST was hp garbage, not even necessary for my setup, like
resident software to run a network printer that was attached to a
specific PC... it's not, it's a stand-alone network printer :-(

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