Circuit Studies, Living Analog, Part 6

A smorgasbord of analog treats await you as our resident Analog Guru, John Dunn, touches upon a variety of topics taken from his popular Living Analog blog published by the EDN Network on EDN.com.

Topics include:

• The primary colors and human eye response to color displays
• The suppression of shoot-thru effects in switchmode power converters
• Signal-to-noise ratio effects at the human ear
• Poor design decisions leading to signal distortion problems in radio designs
• Radar antenna illumination patterns
• "Wet" and "Dry" relay switching
• Interleaved LED drive and conducted electromagnetic interference (EMI) considerations
• Extended battery service life durations
• Non-imaging optics
• LED bulbs and a heat issue
• Getting rid of stray rectification and an EMI susceptibility issue
• The Picard Loop
• LED movie theater aisle lighting

Attention Professional Engineers: An application for 0.2 CEU credits has been applied for and is approved. There will be a $10 charge for these credits payable by check to the "IEEE Consultants Network of Long Island".

6:30 PM: Network with others over delicious food and soft drinks. We will be having deli heroes: American, Italian and Grilled Vegetable plus coleslaw, macaroni and potato salads. So, bring your appetite.

7:00 PM: Introductions, LICN announcements and presentation

Between our normal non-Meetup crowd and those on this Meetup list, we expect to have a good 40 or so people attending, so bring your business cards to share when networking.

More info about the LICN can be found at www.licn.org. Read our blog at licn.typepad.com.