What web forums are best to ask basic EDA & analog questions

[Danny D.]

I finally have access to a variety of basic student-related analog EDA
design tools and would just like to know what web forums are best to ask
questions of for mixed-signal
{topologies,simulation,testbenches,measurements,parasitic
extraction,placement,layout,routing, & physical integration}.

The various tools I'm using for all those tasks are those easily
available to students like me.

But, what web forums do you real analog designers suggest I join to start
asking the most basic of questions ... which ... at this point, are in
the front end of the design phase.

For example, I just ran my very first simulation run, a transient
analysis (temperature sweep) of the simple resistor-diode circuit below -
and I would like advise on what else I can run on this circuit to learn
more about the basics of analog design.

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/11244309/img/11244309.png

Q: What web forums are best for such simple but hopefully good questions?

 

[Rich Webb]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:18:48 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
<dannyxxx@yahoo.com> wrote:

I finally have access to a variety of basic student-related analog EDA
design tools and would just like to know what web forums are best to ask
questions of for mixed-signal
{topologies,simulation,testbenches,measurements,parasitic
extraction,placement,layout,routing, & physical integration}.

The various tools I'm using for all those tasks are those easily
available to students like me.

But, what web forums do you real analog designers suggest I join to start
asking the most basic of questions ... which ... at this point, are in
the front end of the design phase.

For example, I just ran my very first simulation run, a transient
analysis (temperature sweep) of the simple resistor-diode circuit below -
and I would like advise on what else I can run on this circuit to learn
more about the basics of analog design.

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/11244309/img/11244309.png

Q: What web forums are best for such simple but hopefully good questions?

On Usenet, sci.electronics.basics or sci.electronics.design. The
sci.electronics.cad group is relatively unused.

WRT web-based forums, I can't really help. Most of the ones I'm familiar
with are product-support forums. Perhaps the discussions over at
http://www.sparkfun.com/ ?

However, you'll probably enjoy the information and videos over at David
Jones's eevblog. Note that there may be some "language" issues, i.e., a
"crow" is a "CRO" (o-scope) and not a large black bird. ;-)
http://www.eevblog.com/

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA

 

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