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  • voidUpdate1 hour ago
    You can even use it to make a simple audio synth: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lookmumnocomputer.com&#x2F;simplest-oscillator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lookmumnocomputer.com&#x2F;simplest-oscillator</a>
  • cryo322 hours ago
    This isn&#x27;t particularly cursed. I mean we&#x27;ve had avalanche pulse generators for well over half a century easily. It&#x27;s just exploiting semiconductor characteristics they don&#x27;t teach you in the usual garbage undergrad textbooks.
    • denotational1 hour ago
      &gt; the usual garbage undergrad textbooks<p>Out of interest, please could you give some examples of textbooks you consider garbage, and some you consider not to be (undergrad or otherwise)?
      • cryo321 hour ago
        Garbage -&gt; Sedra and Smith particularly - hate it, anything which kicks you in the nuts right up front with Laplace and networks abstractions, anything from Pearson - have never seen a good one.<p>Good -&gt; Razavi (Fundamentals of Microelectronics), Art of Electronics, most Jim Williams stuff (AN&#x27;s and articles), Bowick RF Circuit design. They&#x27;re actually useful.
        • SAI_Peregrinus54 minutes ago
          I find Sedra&#x2F;Smith a terrible introduction, but a good reference. It&#x27;s nice once you&#x27;ve already built an intuition for how things work to be able to go back &amp; build up the mathematical models, but trying to understand the behavior of circuits from the math first is a bad order.
  • fnands1 hour ago
    Delightfully cursed.<p>I wonder how consistent the breakdown voltages are between manufacturers? I mean, I am sure there is some spec, but is it not just a minimum in this case?