Paul Rako

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Rako is headed to Analog Devices

It is with a sad heart I tell you that I am leaving EDN today. Next year I will start at Analog Devices. I will be working here in the Silicon Valley office. I loved my gig here at EDN , but Analog Devices asked me to get back to the bench and work on amplifier tools. In preparing for my recent article on error budgets , I fired up my old copy of PSpice and ran a few Monte-Carlo simulations.... More

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Rako moves on…but stays analog

As I explained in my anablog post , I am sad to say I am leaving EDN. I have a great opportunity at Analog Devices. I wanted to post some links to my articles and such that might help you folks with your designs, and I sure hope you liked my work editing Design Ideas . I don’t want to go all Mr. Weepytears on you, but I have to tell you that it is a misnomer to call these “my... More

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Analog Aficionados party Feb 18, 2012

I will be hosting the 3 rd annual Analog Aficionados party Saturday, February 18, 2012. As always, this is the Saturday before the start of the IEEE ISSCC (international solid state circuits conference). 5:00 to 10:00. I get the venue and buy a couple grand in food for you maniacs, you buy your own booze. Neither I nor the venue, nor any sponsors I round up are responsible if you get... More

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TI Tech Day unveils the MAVRK prototyping system

I was lucky enough to go to the Texas Instruments tech day here in San Jose last week. It was fantastic and I encourage all engineers to attend this an other conferences like our famous ESC conference now rebranded DESIGN West , if only because EDN’s own Margery Conner will be running her hardware design conference for LEDs as part of the show. . TI’s tech... More

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A cheap 3GHz Agilent 8133A pulse generator for my home lab

I recently told you about my home lab , as well as the home labs of Barrie Gilbert , Darryl Philips , Alan Martin , and Jim Williams . Well, seeing all that lab equipment worked me up into a frenzy. I got back on eBay and checked for some of the equipment I still wanted. In that blog post about my lab I mentioned that I had an HP 8131A pulse generator, but I wanted the faster, PRBS... More