The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
by The Amp Hour (Chris Gammell and David L Jones)A weekly podcast about the electronics industry. Occasional guests. Lots of laughs.
Copyright: Copyright © The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast 2020
Episodes
#634 – The CAN bus can! with Dr Ken Tindell
1h 8m · Published
Dr Ken Tindell joins Chris to explain the CAN bus, including the history and how CAN is used in modern day cars. Also car hacking, self-driving car questions, standards in the trucking industry, and what automotive computing will look like in the future.
#634 – The CAN bus can! with Dr Ken Tindell
1h 8m · Published
Dr Ken Tindell joins Chris to explain the CAN bus, including the history and how CAN is used in modern day cars. Also car hacking, self-driving car questions, standards in the trucking industry, and what automotive computing will look like in the future.
#633 – Engineering Optimization
1h 4m · Published
This week Chris and Dave talk about the regular tasks engineers have in front of them when building a new hardware project: battery, data, features, etc. That plus low cost hardware, hacking devices, figuring out new projects, and more
#633 – Engineering Optimization
1h 4m · Published
This week Chris and Dave talk about the regular tasks engineers have in front of them when building a new hardware project: battery, data, features, etc. That plus low cost hardware, hacking devices, figuring out new projects, and more
#632 – Steve Sanghi – Microchip CEO for 31 Years!
1h 6m · Published
Dave talks with Steve Sanghi who was Microchip CEO for 31 years, now executive chariman.
Check out his new book, Up and to the Right. How Microchip was built into one of the biggest and most pofitable chip companies in the world.
In this episode we discussed:
The early microcontrollers, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH
Semiconductor Fab's and locations
How the US Government CHIPS act is a golden handcuffs trap
US/China rhetoric
What really happened durign the covid supply chain crisis
How 90% of medical devices use Microchip parts
Lead times
Respect for the chip manufacturers and supply chains
Just-In-Time becomes Just-In-Case
How the Toyota production system works and how it had to change
The impacts of a potential war in Taiwan
How does it make sense to make thousands of part variants?
The secret to making part varients
Why Microchip chose MIPS vs ARM
Atmel didn't make any money!
Pricing discipline
How buying Atmel almost didn't happen, and how Dialog Semiconductor goofed it
Draconian NDA terms
Atmel was bloated
RISC-V plans
Customer Driven Obsolescence
Foundry vs In-House limitations
Open Source FPGA tools?
Third party tool support
Why not offer free optimised compilers?
It's all about black swan events, down cycles, pointy haired bosses, and how All your Cost Bases Beyong To Me
Hobbyist vs professionals
How Microchip is the largest aerospace chip maker in the world. Nothing leaves earth without a Microchip part in it.
Radiation hardended parts
Market value profitability
Will Microchip ever get acquired
Strained US vs China relations
#632 – Steve Sanghi – Microchip CEO for 31 Years!
1h 6m · Published
Dave talks with Steve Sanghi who was Microchip CEO for 31 years, now Executive Chair.
#631 – A Noisy Rude Bus
1h 5m · Published
Chris and Dave discuss how CAN bus is in fact, a "noisy rude bus". Also working with piezo speakers, strain gauges, manufacturing considerations, and getting your proto off the bench quickly.
#631 – A Noisy Rude Bus
1h 5m · Published
Chris and Dave discuss how CAN bus is in fact, a "noisy rude bus". Also working with piezo speakers, strain gauges, manufacturing considerations, and getting your proto off the bench quickly.
#630 – Renewable Energy Policy with Ari Gerstman
1h 20m · Published
Ari Gerstman from the Department of Energy SCEP Office joins Chris to talk through US Renewable Energy Policy. They discuss the impacts of growing electrication in the US and how spending is driving new industries.
#630 – Renewable Energy Policy with Ari Gerstman
1h 20m · Published
Ari Gerstman from the Department of Energy SCEP Office joins Chris to talk through US Renewable Energy Policy. They discuss the impacts of growing electrication in the US and how spending is driving new industries.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast has 146 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 175:52:09. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on February 22nd 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 30th, 2024 10:40.
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