Highlights this week: 🏎 Roadster schematics💰a $500M close call 📸 the Vegas Sphere camera
📝 Featured Article: AllSpice 10x’s revenue + users.
🎤 Featured Interview: Joe Selvik and Duncan Lowder from Fixturfab, our newest sponsor!
🔗 Last week’s most-clicked link: Ferrite beads demystified.
Interesting Links 🔗:
- Some great analog interview questions (and answers) Analog Devices. Also check out Kevin Fronczak’s post on EE interviews. After reading those, check out our EE Interview Prep signup form! Get a 20-min rapid-fire interview and high-level assessment from EE’s at top companies.
- An interesting blog from Contrary on the history of aviation, including developments in subsonic flight such as the X-59.
- Back to the basics designing PCB trace widths with Autodesk. Three key concepts: power, signal integrity, manufacturability. For 1 amp, consider a 10mil trace width. For 10 amps, consider 300mils!
- Breakdown of the ‘Big Sky’ camera created for the Vegas Sphere. The 316 megapixel camera is equivalent to 18K.
- Tesla released their original Roadster schematics last week. This engineer further analyzes the Battery Management System.
- Story about a $500M “close-call” on the Mars Rover while while verifying the integrity of the motors in the Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) attached to the end of Spirit’s robotic arm. The verification was done by examining their electrical performance with a break-out box.
- A remarkable feat of integration, a new Baraja component integrates Tx, Rx, amplification, processing, steering heterogeneously to provide LiDAR-on-Chip functionality. This IEEE article goes deeper into the technical details.
Startup News 🚀💰:
- Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML plans to invest $324M in a 250,000 sqft R&D facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. Arizona is leading US chip manufacturing investment by a huge margin with another $40 billion from TSMC earlier this year.
- Another AI startup ripping out of stealth mode. Liquid AI raised $37.5M Seed at a staggering $303M post-money valuation. Liquid AI comes out of MIT’s CSAIL, here is the founders research group.
- Also from Boston, De-Ice has developed a GaN-based RF heating system which can de-ice aircraft without the use of chemicals. They have launched an exciting pilot program with Air Canada.
- Darkhive raised a $4M seed round. The company is developing a tactical FPV drone. Crosslink Capital led, Stellar Ventures, MVP Ventures, and Capital Factory invested.
- Ursa Major, raised $138M Series D for their solid rocket motor line Lynx, based in Bermouth, Colorado. Lynx can produce solid propulsion motors for numerous guided rocket systems.
One Interesting Picture 📸: Surface and engine operating temperatures of the SR-71 blackbird.
