NuFuel and Gas Classic

February 24, 2021 Hosted by Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Parker and Stephen discover new EDA tool features in both Eagle and Diptrace! The Auto industry is now waking up to a new tech order of the world.

  • Resealing 12oz cans?
    • FAIL! 
    • Worked till can shaken a bunch
    • Improvements
      • Working on finding a softer sealing surface
        • Currently using a Shore 55A neoprene rubber sheet 
      • Increase seal pressure on can 
  • Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies
    • Follow up from last week’s discussion on Auto industry shutting down production due to lack of electrical components.
    • Both automakers and chip manufactures are pointing fingers
      • Chip makers point at the auto industry in that they are quick to cut production and cancel orders when car sales slump
    • Auto industry where used to being the center of attention for chip and electrical component manufacturers
      • The industry spends around $40 billion dollars a year on chips
      • By Comparison, Apple spends more on chips just to make iPhones!
      • Chips used in Auto tend to be more basic products and older micro controllers, Something that chip fabs do not really want to invest more production into
      • Chip Fabs are prioritizing higher margin, leading edge components
    • OnSemi plans to be back on schedule by 3rd Quarter
  • Eagle EDA Tool Designing parts from the bottom!
  • Starting a small business to sell hardware?
    • Tips for Parker?
    • This will be covered next week
  • DipTrace – PCB teardrops
    • Benefits
      • Stronger pad adhesion making for better reworkability
      • Prevents acid traps at sharp corners where traces meet a pad
        • This really is not an issue anymore
      • Inspect your board and run your DRC
    • Potentially make shorted pins appear worse
    • Interesting tombstone issue
  • Coolio opamp – TLV915x
    • Pricing
      • TLV9152 $0.354 in qty
      • TLV9154 $0.525 in qty
    • Offset
      • 125uV typ
      • 780uV max across temp
      • Input bias and input offset 10pA
    • 20V power
      • 750uA max across temperature supply current per channel
    • Rail to rail
      • 2k load 250mV from rail with 16V power
      • Drops to a fe mV with lower power
  • Cyberpunk is Real!
    • Porsche’s e-fuel is like a real life CHOOH2

Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!