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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: Genocide Joe is beginning to stink like Lyndon B. Johnson
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On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:46:31 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 5/9/2024 11:33 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:09:26 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/9/2024 10:06 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 23:35:28 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 5/8/2024 10:04 PM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 19:40:49 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 5/8/2024 6:32 PM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 17:15:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 5/8/2024 10:28 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Jill Biden reportedly told her husband some time ago to “Stop it, Joe,
>>>>>>>>>>> stop it now.” Good advice that he continues to ignore — at his peril,
>>>>>>>>>>> and ours.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/genocide-joe-is-beginning-to-stink-like-lyndon-b-johnson/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What's your favorite SiC mosfet?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why no buy WOLFSPEED:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> <https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Wolfspeed/C3M0280090D?qs=nxZbHzLpdvfcUe1hs5VeOQ%3D%3D>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What's wrong with that one?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've used C2M0280120D and it works fine. Gate drive is a nuisance, but
>>>>>>>> that's true for all pure SiC parts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ope, I meant to write "why not buy...", it looked like a nice part. More
>>>>>>> standoff voltage than I'm accustomed to requiring for most projects,
>>>>>>> though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I may have a need to roll my own hysteric synchronous buck soon, at an
>>>>>>> astounding 12V..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's not SiC territory. Possibly GaN if you want a tiny MHz
>>>>>> switcher.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> SiC has amazingly low capacitances compared to high-voltage silicon.
>>>>>> But the gates have to swing to levels like +15 and -5. Fast.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why design a switcher, unless it's for fun. You can get a whole 2-amp
>>>>>> buck switcher, great internal reference, current and thermal limited,
>>>>>> spread spectrum, for 19 cents.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Indeed there's lots of stuff off the shelf but for the application I
>>>>> have in mind the it's is acting more like a low frequency
>>>>> self-oscillating Class D, tracking a control voltage.
>>>>
>>>> I have two current designs where I muck the feedback node of a
>>>> spread-spectrum switcher chip to use it as either a programmable power
>>>> supply, or an amplifier.
>>>>
>>>> The simple one powers about 130 12-volt relays. We run them at 12
>>>> volts whenever we reprogram them, and after a few milliseconds drop
>>>> down to 8 volts to save power.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Eventually some damned IC jock intgrates our fun circuits.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's the future now, we can design our own mixed-signal ICs at the local
>>>>> Starbucks, the IC jocks don't have to have all the fun.
>>>>>
>>>>> <https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/slg46140-datasheet>
>>>>>
>>>>> And I can integrate some other functions, too. Look at all the fun parts
>>>>> you get for 40 cents in small quantity. These things have been solid
>>>>> money-makers for me so far
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> People keep re-inventing the "analog FPGA" but none seem to AFbeen
>>>> successful. There must be some deep fundamental reason why.
>>>
>>> Inertia? Have to use your brain?
>>>
>>>> OTP on a leadless package isn't appealing.
>>>>
>>>> A fierce uP with flash memory and some ADC and DAC channels is more
>>>> useful.
>>>
>>> There aren't a lot of fierce uPs at the price, not ones with
>>> well-documented tookits and APIs in English, anyway.
>>>
>> 
>> RP2040.
>
>Actually I probably don't need anything as complicated as an integrated 
>buck converter controller, anyway. Hard to believe this topology is 
>patented but I guess so long as I don't use something similar for 
>"digital audio"??
>
><https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/95/9c/87/a0741208b77066/US20070210861A1.pdf>
>
>
>
>

That's crazy. It's obvious, trivial, and ancient.

But the US Patent Office is a revenue center now.