apparently Analog bought Maxim recently
huh
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kind of sad that a lot of iconic electronic companies are now subsidiaries of other companies
like fairchild is now owned by onsemi, LT is now owned by Analog, burr-brown is now owned by TI, international rectifier is now owned by infineon,...
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especially bad that Linear used to have some of the best datasheets anyone ever made, and Analog's just aren't the same
at least they did keep the old Linear ones
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Some of Analog's still rock. I used this chip a few years ago and its datasheet kicked total ass. https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad9739.html
And yes, that /is/ a 2.5 GSPS 14 bit DAC. :D
@zetasyanthis what is even the use case for that
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Lots of things. DOCSIS to your cable modem, for one. Cell towers, satalite communications, etc...
Can run it in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd nyquist, too, and get out usable signals to 3.75GHz with the right filters.
If you need a fast ADC to receive on one end you need a fast DAC on the other end to transmit. :P
@zetasyanthis I'm thinking of ADCs for oscilloscopes, not for receiving transmitted data
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@zetasyanthis we're a test engineer, we don't work with *functional systems*!
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So am I believe it or not. I just test very different things (servers nowadays, actually). XD
@zetasyanthis speaking of, did you see our thread on hotspotting the other day? Seems like stuff you'd find interesting
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I did not! Link?
That is absolutely fucking wild. I did not know those crystals could be made to that. XD
Also, now I have to tell you that one of the power supplies at my second internship was named the 'tracebreaker' for similar reasons. You took boards with a short, and it would find them for you, ideally with the thermal camera, but it was a 30A linear job... :P
@zetasyanthis there's a 750 volt, 40 amp power supply in our coworker's lab
we have no idea what they're doing with it, but it's a Lot
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@Felthry
That is quite frightening, but I suppose I did just request, uh... another 5MW of power for an upgrade at one of my sites? XD