# Applied Embedded Electronics with Jerry Twomey

- Show: [The Amp Hour](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour)
- Published: 2025-10-03
- Length: 50m
- Episode: 704
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey
- Listen: https://theamphour.com/704-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey/

## Summary

Jerry Twomey, author of 'Applied Embedded Electronics' and founder of Effective Electrons, discusses his consulting work helping companies like Dexcom and IBM build reliable embedded systems. He emphasizes that robust design requires treating digital signals as analog communication channels, focusing on signal integrity, grounding, and EMI mitigation rather than just ideal logic levels. Twomey shares anecdotes from medical device development, high-speed data links, and chip design to illustrate why academic theory often fails in real-world hardware engineering.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=0) Introduction and Consultant Background
- [5:38](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=338) Academia vs. Reality in Signal Integrity
- [12:17](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=737) Medical Device Architecture and Miniaturization
- [17:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=1065) Power Systems and EMI Challenges
- [21:04](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=1264) Consulting Methodology and Grounding
- [30:21](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=1821) IC Design and CMOS Limitations
- [39:26](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=2366) Battery Life and IoT Standards
- [43:49](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/the-amp-hour/2025-10-03-applied-embedded-electronics-with-jerry-twomey#t=2629) Future of Moore's Law and Parallel Processing

## Topics

- [Analog & power electronics](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/analog-and-power-electronics)
- [PCB design & layout](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/pcb-design)
- [Embedded firmware](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/embedded-firmware)
- [Chips, FPGAs & semiconductors](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/chips-and-fpgas)
- [Batteries & low-power design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/batteries-and-low-power)

## Most relevant to

established companies

## Mentioned

- Applied Embedded Electronics (product)
- Effective Electrons (company)
- Dexcom (company)
- IBM (company)
- Cray (company)
- Axiom Micro Devices (company)
- Broadcom (company)
- O'Reilly Publishing (company)
- Keithley Instruments (company)
- Nokia (company)
- Intel (company)
- ARM (company)
- Bluetooth (product)
- ST microelectronics (company)
- EDN (other)
- Electronic Design (other)
- Ray Kierswell (other)
- Jim Williams (other)
- Barry Gilbert (other)
- Bob Pease (other)

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- [53: Being a Grownup Engineer (Repeat)](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2016-09-28-53-being-a-grownup-engineer-repeat) (Embedded.fm)
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- [203: Save My Board](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/embedded-fm/2017-06-08-203-save-my-board) (Embedded.fm)

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