On 9/1/2013 2:15 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 13:22:29 -0400, Phil Hobbs
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On 9/1/2013 11:10 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 23:07:05 -0400, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

On 8/31/2013 10:13 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 21:02:36 -0400, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

On 8/31/2013 8:06 PM, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:34:35 -0400, the renowned Phil Hobbs
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On 8/31/2013 6:14 PM, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 17:59:50 -0400, the renowned Phil Hobbs
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On 8/31/2013 1:49 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:31:10 -0700, Jim Thompson
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August 31...

New updates to my Device Models & Subcircuits page.

New updates to my Simulation Tools & Macros page.

With years of benign neglect, I've accumulated more than 600
schematics on my S.E.D/Schematics page. So I'm busy indexing
everything...

after more work I'm now up to "O" :-]

Comments welcome. Also suggestions about what to add.

...Jim Thompson

Why not write a book and actually help the next generation (or the one
after that)?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Perhaps introduce Jim to your publisher?



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany


As long as he promises to be polite.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Your publisher can be rude? ;-)

The old guy, George Telecki, retired about a year ago. He was
great--I'd been working with him since about 1998. I don't know the new
person yet.

I have a couple of projects underway, one for a third edition of BEOS,
and a small monograph on photon budgets that I may send to SPIE or
someplace like that if I ever get it done.

Most of Jim's NDAs must have expired by now, so he could write about
probably 90% of the things he's done if he wanted to.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Yes. I'd like to talk. It's offensive to me to endure certain
assholes who are fond of implying I haven't done anything. (But I
still need to get many releases... much of what I've done is current
technology... I still have patent applications in progress.)

I may be physically old, but I'm certainly not mentally.

...Jim Thompson


Permission to publish isn't generally too hard to get, I wouldn't think.
Better get started if you're ever going to, though--if your experience
is like mine, it'll take you a solid year of writing and calculating,
even if you do it really truly full time.

(At IBM in the late 90s, I was blessed with very understanding managers.
When I went into my annual performance review for 1998, I somewhat
nervously told them that no, I really hadn't done any of what we'd
agreed to for that year, but then plunked down a binder containing my
nearly completed book manuscript. Not only did I survive, but they gave
me a nice raise.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Fortunately I now keep copious notes about my designs... provoked by
the Chrysler ignition controller fiasco... I looked back at a 40 year
old design and couldn't figure out how/why it worked... took me over a
week to reconstruct how/why I designed it that way :-]

...Jim Thompson


That's good, but for the book to be useful it should IMO be a bit more
than just a Cooks' tour of Jim's designs, laid out for the admiring
multitude. That takes a fair amount of work.

Generalizing the design approaches to make the book more of an
apprenticeship-in-a-box does the most good, I think. There are lots of
books that talk about _what_ people have done, but not so many that talk
about _why_, and very few indeed that give much of a clue about which
ones to chose for a given problem.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Actually, I wrote (and presented) a series of seminars for ICE that
cover the nuts and bolts of bipolar design. I could modernize
something like that.

...Jim Thompson

Most of the advanced amplifier books that I know about present things
like the f_T doubler as though they sprang from the forehead of Zeus,
and then analyze them. Something about all the messing around you have
to do in order to come up with a useful new topology would be really useful.

Hollister, which is the best of the bunch, has a sort of iterative
progression that I like a lot, but there's something about discovering a
new-to-you topology that makes it your own somehow. Increases the
confidence level, anyway. I reinvented some of the classical small
circuits before I knew that they were classical--I expect that many of
us who started out as hobbyists did.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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