Hi,

The analog community lost another chip design legend last week - Derek F. Bowers. Derek left an indelible mark on the analog design industry and a tribute to his life accomplishments is in an article I wrote, linked below. RIP, Derek.

I snagged the slot where I'm guest-hosting Electronic Design's Inside Electronics podcast this week (and next week - it's a two parter). This podcast was the result of a Zoom call that TI thought was an editor briefing and I thought was a podcast recording.

Wires crossed, we started the call with an "oopsie" -- everybody was unprepared and nervous about doing it without a script, so I made a deal - we'd proceed and then after the call, we'd get unanimous approval to turn it into a podcast if it went well for everyone, including the PR folks listening in on the call. You see, I prefer these kinds of impromptu chats, vs prepared questions where I'm reading like a robot.

Drop me a note if you'd like to do one of these with me if you want to chat about markets, business, engineering, design techniques/tools, technologies, etc.

With unprepared questions, Henrik and I had a naturally flowing engineer-engineer conversation about power conversion and energy management, as any of you would with a leader (Henrik is a General Manager at TI) who knew their stuff. So, this newsletter has that podcast, link below, which just aired this morning.

I think you'll enjoy listening to it in the car or whenever you have 15 minutes to do so. It is about residential solar, but if you've been paying attention -- in the garage, it's rezsolar and EVs living together, much as Dr. Peter Venkman's horror scenario (for the oil industry, ICE can't mate with solar or the grid - mass hysteria among lobbyists currently ensues). Both GM Energy and Tesla have in-garage energy solutions, among others that do V2H and V2G, so this is very relevant to those of you in the EV space. Please have a listen, and send me an email, or comment on the podcast page, about this one.

Endeavor Media has dozens of publications, of which Electronic Design is one of them. I've included an interesting read from sister pub Industry Week about Detroit's oopsie on EV strategy.

Most of us don't give a whole lot of thought to wire and cable, but break a wire or have an intermittent connector (oopsie) and you are reminded of the joke about the parts of the body arguing which one of them is the most important.

So, I've pulled some useful articles for you from the archives about good old, boring, wiring to help our readers keep wiring the boring part of their systems.

Boring is good. Everybody getting excited and going nonlinear about a system problem is not.

enjoy,

-andyT