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243

Parker Dillmann | September 23, 2020

MEP EP#243: Schematics and Connectors, Name a More Iconic Duo…

Podcast Notes

Parker

Battery Charger debacle update
- Two batteries recovered, One failed
Amazon Sidewalk draws electronics from among TI, Silicon Labs and Semtech
- Amazon Sidewalk, a new shared wireless network for IoT consumer device
DXF to Board outlines?
- Eagles DXF importer doesn’t work all too well
- Suggestions?
- AutoDesk Fusion seems to import just fine

Stephen

Connectors on schematics
- Rfdave on slack channel asked a question about this
  - Am I the only person who hates a schematic consisting of 1 connector, 2 IC’s, 4 bypass caps with all of the interconnects being done with net names, and no interconnecting wires?
- Currently working on a design that has multiple boards with cable interconnects
- How do you like to show this?
- Reference Designator?
Potentiometer board – one board to rule them all
- Using slots to make panel mount “solder lug” potentiometers into pcb mount
  - Not a lot of values in each taper is available in a through hole version
  - This means a lot less wiring is required.
  - EDA schematic and grounding

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

About The Hosts

Parker Dillmann is MacroFab's Co-Founder, and Lead ECE with backgrounds in Embedded System Design, and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. He also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas.

Stephen Kraig began his electronics career by building musical oriented circuits in 2003. Stephen is an avid guitar player and, in his down time, manufactures audio electronics including guitar amplifiers, pedals, and pro audio gear. Stephen graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University.