Re: Genocide Joe is beginning to stink like Lyndon B. Johnson

Am 09.05.24 um 23:19 schrieb Jeroen Belleman:

On 5/9/24 22:35, john larkin wrote:

 

One great discovery on that project was the Micrel SY88022 laser
driver. It's good for a lot more than driving lasers.

 

Interesting chip, indeed. Just the sort of thing to build fast
samplers or TDRs with. Thanks for the tip.

 I'm not too impressed. We had that kind of performance in our 10G
XFP Infineon fiber optic transceivers, from Gennum and Infineon Semi
20 years ago. The fiber optic division was sold to Finisar then.
I spent nearly a month in San Jose for Tech transfer with 4 other
people. Me, just a lowly freelancer.. But it was interesting.  :-)
  There seems to be a wall at 25 ps.
 Has anybody here played with nonlinear transmission lines?
I tried with Spice, but with discrete devices I did not get
very far. PSPL seems to have been the king of these before
they were eaten by TEK.
 Gerhard
 (BTW I echoed your Thorium transition post to timenuts.)
 What has that to do with uk.comp.sys.mac and pro wrestling ????