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I've never really used their search in general, can't comment on it. I feel like most "piece part" searches are pretty terrible. I would just use Digikey and slowly set all the fil…

Which is a total shame, because those labels are the best discovery engines! If you want a great source of new content, that's effectively their full time job. The distribution and…

My mind is blown! I've always associated Linear with precision work, can't believe it was all built on eBay equipment. Doesn't seem very Jim Williams...

While manufacturer's may have very small deviations in their footprints, by and large almost every IC conforms to some kind of JEDEC compliant package. From there, IPC-7351B [1] ha…

I use PCBway and generally get all my designs within an 8 day turnaround time.

While I think your assessment is correct, I do want to note that it's not like starting with Eagle, Altium, Orcad, etc is going to be easier. Just jumping into a complex, domain sp…

PCBway has been outstanding for my personal projects. Ludicrously cheap to the point where I have no problem buying 4 or 5 extra copies just in case!

Not necessarily. I've never heard of anyone doing it for space (maybe SpaceX?) but you could have an SDR driving a massive MIMO/beamforming array. The SDR can then dynamically "cha…

Same, but I'm pretty damn happy being born when I am. The insane amount of material that's on Digikey is just way too useful now. I have a nice poster of the "Every Idiot Can Count…

Yeah, it would require quite a bit. Note that while it can input a massive frequency band (10M to 3.5G), the sampling rate is quite small (~31MS/s). Would work much better as a spe…

A PSoC-focused design trades flexibility for price, power, and performance. Hard sell.

Not sure what they called our definition of a billion, but that was definitely the naming scheme [0] [0] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-is-a-bill...

What's so bad about high-Z inputs? Designing around a floating input is the same as designing around an undefined variable. Bad design but you can't "hurt" the hardware.