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Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Final part 5 of 5 This one covers the design of the 34460 multimeter, dc-dc converter design, cost targets, isolation, 34410a sales, contract manufacturers, production lines, chip packages, the 34460a 1000V spec mistake, IEC61010 Rev3 new challenges in product design, safety hazards and standards, …

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 4 of 5, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supporters will get all the videos early. This one covers product counterfeiting, clone products,education market, downconversion vs direct RF sampling,disruptions in manufacturing, consumer electronics,led lighting,the future of test and measurement, the future of …

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 3 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supporters will get all the videos early. This one covers Design teams, web UI interfaces, firmware issues, regression testing, automated testing, 3458A, losing talent, 8.5 digit bench meter?, testing throughput, …

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 2 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supports will get all the videos early. This one covers the early days of PCB tools, Rubylith, gerber copying, simulation, EEsoft RF design and layout tool, Sabre by Synopsis, Matlab, …

How do you convert a logic truth table into a digital logic circuit? Dave shows you how with the Sum Of Products method. Forum HERE

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 1 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supports will get all the videos early. This one covers the history earlier days of HP, Bill & Dave and their philosophy, early recruitment, the design centres, cash cows, HP-Agilent-Keysight …

Characterising the performance and efficiency of the $25 DPS3003 30V 3A lab power supply module from RDtech. Includes a how-to on measuring DC-DC converter efficiency graphs, with module power loss on the secondary Y axis. XL7005 datasheet Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave takes a quick look at the spectacularly cheap $20 DPS series CC/CV modules from RD Tech. How to make a 30V 3A bench power supply with 1mA resolution constant current limiting and multi function display using a junk bin enclosure and a junked plugpack or old computer power supply. …

Dave looks at some issues with fanning out tiny 0.4mm pitch BGA packages, via pad and hole size, tenting, breakouts, solder mask expansion etc. And then compares it with an 1136 pin Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA with 1mm pitch to show the difference in PCB process technologies needed. Forum HERE …

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard. Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway. …

Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders” UPDATE: 2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound) Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other …

What’s inside an implantable Medtronics Itrel 3 Neurostimulator designed for Neuropathic pain reduction. Dave tears into the ultrasonically welded titanium case. Manual HERE Forum HERE Podcast: Download

What’s inside this mystery dumpster dive PC? Will it work? Forum HERE Podcast: Download

Dave finally got hit by the dreaded Adpocalypse demonetisation on his Minute Physics / Bill Nye video. Also a look at the EEVblog advertising revenue and if its has been hit by the Adpocalypse advertising revenue drop in general. Views are compared with revenue to show any drop in ad …

A response to Minute Physics’s latest video promoting the Rayton Solar equity crowd funding campaign. Dave looks at Rayton Solar and it’s investment risk and practical viability and asks the question, should Minute Physics have promoted this? And they roped in Bill Nye too! Let me know what you think, …