An Interview with Matt Duff

Welcome, Matt Duff! Matt is the Precision Web Tools manager at Analog Devices. Listeners to the show will recognize us talking about Matt’s videos about instrumentation amplifiers on YouTube.

• Matt started at National Instruments out of college.
  • 0h 1m 6s
• Consolidation of analog
  • 0h 2m 25s
• These days, there's less focus on absolute performance and more focus on ease of implementation.
  • 0h 3m 17s
• Innovators dilemma
  • 0h 3m 33s
• Process technologies at ADI
  • 0h 5m 52s
• Merging with Linear Tech
  • 0h 7m 31s
• LTspice
  • 0h 9m 23s
• Mike Engelhardt was on The Amp Hour
  • 0h 9m 39s
• Prior to web tools, Matt was an Apps engineer
  • 0h 10m 20s
• Amplifier videos
  • 0h 13m 22s
• Web tools
  • 0h 16m 2s
• Example of building analog filters
  • 0h 17m 11s
• Custom filter chips
  • 0h 19m 26s
• Digital vs analog filters
  • 0h 21m 8s
• Art of Electronics
  • 0h 22m 51s
• Filtering series of videos
  • 0h 23m 3s
• Chebyshev vs Butterworth
  • 0h 24m 54s
• analog.com/designtools
  • 0h 26m 1s
• http://www.analog.com/designtools/en/filterwizard/
  • 0h 27m 50s
• Control for cost
  • 0h 34m 39s
• SallenKey filter component
  • 0h 37m 7s
• Filtering reduces information, get a smaller ADC
  • 0h 39m 6s
• Filter tool has been around for a while
  • 0h 41m 44s
• http://playground.analog.com/
  • 0h 42m 3s
• Driving high end ADCs is tricky
  • 0h 42m 29s
• ADC switched capacitor design
  • 0h 44m 3s
• 30 pF bucket
  • 0h 45m 3s
• Mixer spur
  • 0h 51m 35s
• ADI acquires Hittite
  • 0h 51m 50s
• In-amp diamond plot tool
  • 0h 54m 44s
• New datasheet tools for ADI parts
  • 0h 56m 57s
• Pace of web tech
  • 1h 1m 45s
• Web books are already out of place
  • 1h 2m 16s
• Some parts are so expensive tehy don't need web tools
  • 1h 7m 28s
• Reach Matt via the Analog.com feedback form or via email
  • 1h 9m 23s