The Legend of Keyzermas

Welcome back, Jeff Keyzer AKA Mightyohm!

• This is now our 5th Keyzermas! Check out the past ones here:
  • Mightyhohm For The Holidays
  • Merry Keyzermas
  • The Ghost of Keyzermas Past
  • Wait, Why is Jeff Glowing?
• Last year Jeff had just quit his job but has since re-joined Valve as a contractor
• Overhead
• Jeff has not joined Chris's Consulting Forum. You can join here if you're interested (now 100+ strong!)
• Jeff has been focusing on Signal Integrity
• It's helpful to "Be the signal", a visualization popularized by Eric Bogatin
• Dave things Jeff should get a video game maker to make a simulation. Maybe former guest Zach Barth of Zachtronics?
• "The Terminator"
• In his new SI role, Jeff is checking things like
  • Jitter
  • Eye diagrams
• And using equipment like
  • VNA
  • TDR
• Learn your Z transforms, kids! They're important!
• We've had some great signal integrity guests on the show:
  • Eric Bogatin
  • Howard Johnson (though Chris completely forgot)
  • Henry Ott
• Elektor started carrying mightyohm kits
• The Seattle scene for hardware has been growing. Jeff isn't a NIMBY yet.
• The effect of recessions on new company creation
• Boeing tour
• Things that have or haven't happened
• USB C
• TS80
• New bandwidths - 60 GHz
• Hiber and other low earth orbit satellite offerings
• Looking at the 2018 hype curve
• Jon Beri talk at HDDG about Brett Victor's concept of "seeing spaces"
• CES trends
• Connected home
• Autobiography of Tek (think it's "Winning with people: The first 40 years of Tektronix")
• Hot Air Rises and Heat Sinks by Tony Kordyban
• Jeff pointed out the 27 series set from Rad Lab