Re: tiny inductor with every bypass cap?

Joerg wrote:
> Talal Itani wrote:
>> Ok, maybe not tiny.  I have never seen this before, so I wonder whey 
>> these inductors are there.
>>
> 
> Possibly a very young guy did the design. There are people who take a 
> sledgehammer to hang a picture. Sometimes the sledgehammer then makes a 
> hole in the wall ;-)
> 
>>
>>> BTW, 50uH isn't really "tiny". 
>>
> 
> For RF it's huge. Like a sledgehammer. Sledgehammers can cause a lot of 
> grief.
> 
WHAT?  You mean that semiconductor companies hire kids with no real 
experience fresh out of college to be applications engineers?

Now THAT would imply that they look at their applications engineers as a 
marketing expense, not a profit center.

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