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	<title>μblog: engineering from the trenches</title>
	<link>http://microblog.routed.net</link>
	<description>by Nick Chernyy</description>
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		<title>The end (updated)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have made few attempts to keep this space updated and relevant over the past year, but ultimately failed. I have nearly completed my PhD so I have gotten extremely busy with finishing experiments and writing/editing my thesis. I still do analog and digital design in my day-to-day life, except, most of that work cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2009/10/30/the-end/</link>
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		<title>microblog nanoupdate</title>
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I had the good fortune of running into someone who read IC Friday, at random, and that reminded me that I have been quite delinquent in updating ublog. My work load has tripled over the past few months, so I have been busy, however, I will make every effort to keep this current. Below are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2009/04/24/microblog-nanoupdate-2/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 for your home/Twitter for your grocery list</title>
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I have hopped onto the Twitter bandwagon and created an account for my FreeBSD media server. My goal was to have the machine check Twitter periodically and send any tweets designated for it to a small thermal printer. This way, if I wanted to remind myself to pick up some milk and bread, I could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2009/01/15/web-20-for-your-hometwitter-for-your-grocery-list/</link>
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		<title>The performance cap for the current set of netbooks</title>
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I have been looking at getting a netbook for some time, specifically the Samsung NC10. I have been looking around for a netbook with the best performance and noticed that the &#8220;best&#8221; netbooks from all manufacturers seem to have the same specifications (at the time of writing):

1.6GHz, N270 Atom processor (single core)
1GB Ram
10.2&#8243; LCD (no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/12/10/the-performance-cap-for-the-current-set-of-netbooks/</link>
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		<title>Fun with 2D barcodes</title>
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I am presenting at the 2008 Society for Neuroscience Conference next week so I finally got my credentials in the mail. The conference has had a pretty substantial vendor area and I don&#8217;t think that it will change this year. In the past, all of the vendors would try to give away anything from pens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/11/10/fun-with-2d-barcodes/</link>
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		<title>Notes on air-core inductor value computation</title>
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I have been very busy at the lab lately, too busy to update ublog regularly, and this set of formulas from Gamma Instruments has saved me a bit of trouble. Several air core inductor designs are outlined which allow you to make your own custom inductor, within reason, if you need to test something and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/10/22/notes-on-air-core-inductor-value-computation/</link>
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		<title>Journal Club: Deterministic nonperiodic flow (Edward Lorenz)</title>
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I have been reading James Gleick&#8217;s Chaos and I must confess that I am very impressed with the book so far. I am beginning to realize some of the practical applications of non-linear dynamics to analog circuit design, however, more on that later. What has been very interesting is the slow change in the mentality [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/10/07/journal-club-deterministic-nonperiodic-flow-edward-lorenz/</link>
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		<title>Capacitor ESR and voltage regulation</title>
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I recently read a statement somewhere along the lines of &#8220;you always want low equivalent series resistance (ESR) capacitors in your design&#8221; which got me thinking about ESR and capacitors in general. The truth of the matter is that you do often want capacitors with moderate ESR (&#62;10 Ohms) for bypass applications, especially in voltage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/09/30/capacitor-esr-and-voltage-regulation/</link>
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		<title>Nanoreview of the Sony eBook reader (PRS-505)</title>
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Penn State University has decided to roll out an ebook reader program by making the PRS-505 portable reader from Sony available for checkout. The program became quite popular and I was unable to get one myself, however, a colleague managed to secure one so I was still able to play around with it for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/09/22/nanoreview-of-the-sony-ebook-reader-prs-505/</link>
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		<title>Quick notes on generating Gerber files with Orcad PCB Editor</title>
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I have been doing a lot of signal processing/statistics lately, however, I still design PCBs using the Orcad suite from time to time. PCB Editor is both powerful and feature rich leading to massive frustration every time I forget the exact steps for generating the necessary artwork to submit for manufacturing. In an effort to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://microblog.routed.net/2008/09/14/quick-notes-on-generating-gerber-files-with-orcad-pcb-editor/</link>
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