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Article #403Re: Dr Howard Johnson, this weeks guest on The Amp Hour
From: John Larkin
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:22
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:22
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:28:22 -0800 (PST), Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@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. Yeah, his book is half nonsense. If you can tell which half is which, you don't need the book. His ideas on "return currents" and bypassing are absurd. And the writing is dreadful. His articles in EDN (or ED, whatever) are horrible too. He ran out of material years ago, but he keeps writing. I started highlighting the really bad, flat silly parts of "Black Magic" but gave up less then halfway through. John
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From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
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Subject: Re: Dr Howard Johnson, this weeks guest on The Amp Hour
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