EP#125: The Open Source Episode with Robert Keim

• Robert Keim
  • A graduate from the University of California of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
  • Technical Director for All About Circuits
  • Extensive experience in a wide variety of fields, including 
    • Analog design
    • Firmware development
    • Digital signal processing
    • Power management
    • Motor control
    • Digital camera design
    • Low-noise PCB layout
    • System integration
    • Designing for harsh environments
    • Neural networks
    • Software-defined radios
  • Role of open source information in the EE community 
    • What does Open Source mean to you? 
      • Robert: Knowledge, that originates from labor and is freely available. True acquisition of knowledge.
      • Parker: A tool for learning - seeing how things were made and creating your own version
      • Stephen:  More emphasis on knowledge and understanding vs the execution
  • Do you think that open source projects can be a long term financial success, or are they a social movement and more about bringing knowledge and functionality to the community?
  • Version control for PCBs and how that workflow may differ from software version control
  • How you would collaborate with multiple Electrical Engineers on a single PCB (schematic and layout)?
  • What's one of your favorite articles that you wrote for All About Circuits and why? The Clean Power Series - decoupling capacitors
  • Favorite Microcontroller/Development Board/Toolchain
  • Where do you see EDA tools in 5 years? Least favorite EDA tool?

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