Highlights this week: hollywood hardware, open-source silicon manufacturing, and the electroless plating process.
- 🔗 Last issue’s most-clicked link: YouTube’s customer hardware + ASIC development blog.
Interesting Links 🔗:
- A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip. "The entire ARM design team consisted of Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber, a couple of additional chip designers, and a four-person team writing testing and verification software."
- Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It’s the 1970s. As of August this year, manufacturers had added back about 1.43 million jobs, a net gain of 67,000 workers above prepandemic level As someone that literally works inside a factory, I can attest → it’s never been a better time to be a part of this country’s industrial base and contribute to our growth in such a meaningful way. Check out Summit’s many job openings here. If there’s not a role you see online but you’re intestered in joining the largest privately-held PCB manufacturer in North America, reach out to me directly on LinkedIn.
- Fun video with Director Michael Bay and a bunch of youtubers showing all the drones and hardware used for filming these days.
- Excellent power electronics blog submitted by an Analog reader. While it’s been a few years since the blog has been updated, there’s lots of great content in the archives to sift through -- like this post on gate drivers.
- Great (highly technical) video on the "Libre Silicon" project, a portable semiconductor manufacturing process and technology, using only free and open source tools. Even though 1µm may not sound very ambitious, this process node is still quite well documented in text books, robust and 5 Volt-tolerant.
- The BESS Failure Event Database: a public resource for documenting publicly-available data on battery energy storage failure events from around the world. Lots in the US and South Korea.
- How To Manage And Sell A Company In An Industry And A Country You Don’t Know. Great writeup from the founder of CB Insights, who took over his father’s chemical manufacturing facility upon his father’s early demise.
- Lithium-ion battery data and where to find it. This paper reviews the data by mode of experimental testing, giving particular attention to test variables and data provided. Alongside highlighted tools and platforms, over 30 datasets are reviewed.
- Chapter on electroless plating from an old school textbook on PCB manufacturing.
One Interesting Picture 📸: memory map land 🏜
