# Project Management, Lasers & Robots - Staunch Specialty Sanctanimity

- Show: [The Amp Hour](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour)
- Published: 2013-04-10
- Length: 1h 23m
- Episode: 140
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity
- Listen: https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-140-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity/

## Summary

Hosts Dave Jones and Chris Gammell discuss the challenges of engineering management, the importance of context in design, and the relentless pressure of content creation. They analyze a new Triad Semiconductor technology, the Via ASIC, which combines FPGA and FPAA capabilities for reconfigurable mixed-signal design. The conversation shifts to a critical hardware failure where Jones discovers the LT3080 voltage regulator has a silicon errata that causes it to blow up under specific conditions, highlighting the risks of relying on manufacturer application notes.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=0) Introduction and Management Philosophy
- [8:31](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=511) Engineering vs. Management and Context
- [40:02](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=2402) Triad Semiconductor and Via ASIC
- [47:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=2832) Military Lasers and Robotics
- [53:20](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=3200) Component Markings and SPICE Simulation
- [1:08:12](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2013-04-10-project-management-lasers-robots-staunch-specialty-sanctanimity#t=4092) LT3080 Silicon Errata and Failure Analysis

## Topics

- [Debugging & failure analysis](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/debugging-and-failure-analysis)
- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [Analog & power electronics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/analog-and-power-electronics)
- [Leadership, teams & culture](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/leadership-and-culture)
- [Robotics & autonomy](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/robotics-and-autonomy)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Via Designer (tool)
- LT3080 (chip)
- LT6110 (chip)
- Petman (product)
- Boston Dynamics (company)
- DARPA (company)
- Yageo (company)
- LTSpice (tool)

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