🚀 go-pugleaf

On Jan 10, 4:55 pm, John Devereux <j...@devereux.me.uk> wrote:
> Robert Macy <robert.a.m...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Jan 10, 2:28 am,BillSloman<bill.slo...@ieee.org> wrote:
> >> On Jan 10, 7:47 am, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Just thought some might be interested in hearing our recent guest on
> >> > our Amp Hour radio show, Dr Howard Johnson of "Handbook of Black
> >> > Magic" fame:http://www.theamphour.com/2012/01/10/the-amp-hour-77-winsome-waveform...
>
> >> > Lots of history of the book, signal integrity, Gigabit Ethernet
> >> > development, 90 degree PCB bends, audiophoolery, and a whole bunch of
> >> > other talk over almost 1 1/12 hours.
>
> >> "Black Magic" is more notorious than famous. I own both it and it's
> >> follow-up, and both have got some useful content but they are badly
> >> organised and what useful content they do contain is hard to find.
>
> >> The field is still waiting for a decent textbook on high speed circuit
> >> design and layout.
>
> >> This is one of the few matters on which John Larkin and I seem to
> >> agree.
>
> >> --
> >>BillSloman, Nijmegen
>
> > Perhaps, it is time for the first ever 'conference' book written by a
> > consortium of engineers/scientists.
>
> > Put my name in for proffreading.  :)
>
> Great idea. Perhaps John Larkin, Jim Thompson and Bill Sloman could
> collaborate on it.
>
> Sure that will work out well... :)

I'm not sure what Jim Thompson might contribute. I've seen papers that
worry about the characteristic impedance of connections on the silicon
(or whatever) inside integrated circuits, but I don't have the feeling
that Jim designs stuff that's big enough and fast enough for him to
need to know much about it.

Motorola's ECL applications notes on board layout were rather useful,
and date back to Jim's time with them, but he won't have written them,
any more than he wrote the rather comprehensive applications notes for
his MC4024/MC4044 precursors of the 4046, though he may have
supervised the people who did.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen