EP#377: Countdown to Hype

MEP EP#377: Countdown to Hype

Topics:

Electronics and radiation

• Radiation Handbook for Electronics
• Silicon does strange things in the presence of radiation
• Failures -
• Two Flavors - non permanent or permanent
• SEE (single event error)
• SEU (single event upset)
• SEL (single-event latch-up)
• SEGR (single-event gate rupture)
• SEB (Single event burnout)
• PN junctions
• Fets
• CMOS - Memory
• Types of radiation exposure
• TID (total ionizing dose)
• Rate specific
• ELDRS (Enhanced low dose rate sensitivity)
• Proton
• Neutron

SpaceX starship

• Starship is the largest and most powerful launch vehicle ever flown and the first intended to be fully reusable
• Launch was great to watch
• Damage to launch pad
• Twice the thrust of the Saturn V

What kind of topics and discussions do Senior or Principal Engineers Care about?

• How many times can you sit through an introduction on a topic?
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