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Ah the lost art of analog design.

by RachelF 12y ago

sliverstorm 12y ago
Not a lost art, you just don't see those guys around here. Electrical engineering with a focus in RF - there were many at my university, and they are vital to things like radios, SATA, and DRAM.
- csirac2 12y ago
  Indeed. Well, perhaps it is a bit of a lost art in the sense that an EE curriculum nowadays has to sacrifice so much deemed fundamental perhaps a few decades ago in order to squeeze in all the digital stuff... I for one am glad I still had subjects on transmission lines, basics of FEM modeling of electric fields, impedance matching, low power analogue electronics and a whole pile of signal analysis/processing stuff even though I wasn't in the RF stream.
  - sliverstorm 12y ago
    At my uni, EE's studied strictly analog. Digital was the purview of the CE's (computer engineer)
analog31 12y ago
I've often wondered if some lost arts represent niche opportunities. My username is apt. I'm keenly interested in analog, particularly precision and low noise circuits. I have a side business that makes a niche market product based on an analog circuit. At my day job, I'm one of the few people left who is capable (or maybe just willing) to compute a formal noise budget for an analog circuit. At least in the instrumentation business, there will always be a need to get the analog signal from the sensor to the analog-to-digital converter with dignity. And understanding analog issues is sometimes vital to resolving those issues using digital processing.
- danelectro 12y ago
  Instruments have been my life. It would be good to find out more about your efforts.
- danelectro 12y ago
  Instruments have been my life. It would be good to find out more about your efforts.
danelectro 12y ago
Radiotron was good for me. Nachbauer pushed outward from there also, here's an announcement page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQyGjCbYQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQ... (his early links are long dead) Here starts one preamp discussion: http://www.ampage.org/homebrew.cgi?cat=sg&sb=&so=hl&page=989856497IrvCfrx http://www.ampage.org/homebrew.cgi?cat=sg&sb=&so=hl&page=989... If you like, then here is the rest of that story: http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk And don't forget this: http://www.dogstarmusic.ca http://www.dogstarmusic.ca With lost artists go lost arts.

Ah the lost art of analog design.

by RachelF 12y ago

Ah the lost art of analog design.

Not a lost art, you just don't see those guys around here. Electrical engineering with a focus in RF - there were many at my university, and they are vital to things like radios, SATA, and DRAM.

csirac2 12y ago
Indeed. Well, perhaps it is a bit of a lost art in the sense that an EE curriculum nowadays has to sacrifice so much deemed fundamental perhaps a few decades ago in order to squeeze in all the digital stuff... I for one am glad I still had subjects on transmission lines, basics of FEM modeling of electric fields, impedance matching, low power analogue electronics and a whole pile of signal analysis/processing stuff even though I wasn't in the RF stream.
- sliverstorm 12y ago
  At my uni, EE's studied strictly analog. Digital was the purview of the CE's (computer engineer)

analog31 12y ago

I've often wondered if some lost arts represent niche opportunities. My username is apt. I'm keenly interested in analog, particularly precision and low noise circuits. I have a side business that makes a niche market product based on an analog circuit. At my day job, I'm one of the few people left who is capable (or maybe just willing) to compute a formal noise budget for an analog circuit. At least in the instrumentation business, there will always be a need to get the analog signal from the sensor to the analog-to-digital converter with dignity. And understanding analog issues is sometimes vital to resolving those issues using digital processing.

danelectro 12y ago
Instruments have been my life. It would be good to find out more about your efforts.
danelectro 12y ago
Instruments have been my life. It would be good to find out more about your efforts.

danelectro 12y ago

Radiotron was good for me. Nachbauer pushed outward from there also, here's an announcement page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQyGjCbYQ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.audio.tubes/swgQ... (his early links are long dead) Here starts one preamp discussion: http://www.ampage.org/homebrew.cgi?cat=sg&sb=&so=hl&page=989856497IrvCfrx http://www.ampage.org/homebrew.cgi?cat=sg&sb=&so=hl&page=989... If you like, then here is the rest of that story: http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk And don't forget this: http://www.dogstarmusic.ca http://www.dogstarmusic.ca With lost artists go lost arts.