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EEVblog #1032 Part 5 – John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Final part 5 of 5 This one covers the design of the 34460 multimeter, dc-dc converter design, cost targets, isolation, 34410a sales, contract manufacturers, production lines, chip packages, the 34460a 1000V spec mistake, IEC61010 Rev3 new challenges in product design, safety hazards and standards, …

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EEVblog #1032 Part 4 – John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 4 of 5, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supporters will get all the videos early. This one covers product counterfeiting, clone products,education market, downconversion vs direct RF sampling,disruptions in manufacturing, consumer electronics,led lighting,the future of test and measurement, the future of …

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EEVblog #1032 Part 3 – John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 3 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supporters will get all the videos early. This one covers Design teams, web UI interfaces, firmware issues, regression testing, automated testing, 3458A, losing talent, 8.5 digit bench meter?, testing throughput, …

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EEVblog #1032 Part 2 – John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 2 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supports will get all the videos early. This one covers the early days of PCB tools, Rubylith, gerber copying, simulation, EEsoft RF design and layout tool, Sabre by Synopsis, Matlab, …

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EEVblog #1032 Part 1 – John Kenny Keysight Interview

Interview with John Kenny from Keysight Part 1 of several more to come, released daily, stay tuned! Patrons and forum supports will get all the videos early. This one covers the history earlier days of HP, Bill & Dave and their philosophy, early recruitment, the design centres, cash cows, HP-Agilent-Keysight …

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EEVblog #1030 – $20 DIY Bench Power Supply!

Dave takes a quick look at the spectacularly cheap $20 DPS series CC/CV modules from RD Tech. How to make a 30V 3A bench power supply with 1mA resolution constant current limiting and multi function display using a junk bin enclosure and a junked plugpack or old computer power supply. …

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EEVblog #1029 – BGA PCB Fanout

Dave looks at some issues with fanning out tiny 0.4mm pitch BGA packages, via pad and hole size, tenting, breakouts, solder mask expansion etc. And then compares it with an 1136 pin Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA with 1mm pitch to show the difference in PCB process technologies needed. Forum HERE …

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EEVblog #1028 – What’s All This PC/104 Stuff Anyhow?

Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard. Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway. …

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eevBLAB #37 – Youtube Copyright Trolls

Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders” UPDATE: 2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound) Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other …

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eevBLAB #36 – Demonetised!

Dave finally got hit by the dreaded Adpocalypse demonetisation on his Minute Physics / Bill Nye video. Also a look at the EEVblog advertising revenue and if its has been hit by the Adpocalypse advertising revenue drop in general. Views are compared with revenue to show any drop in ad …

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