Re: tiny inductor with every bypass cap?

"Vladimir Vassilevsky" <antispam_bogus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Don't you know? Those who can't be the real engineers take the position
of 
> the application engineers.

Much of the time that's probably so, but not always -- I know a guy who's
a 
decent engineer, having run his own successful (profitable) company for 
awhile, working as a consultant, etc., before deciding to become an FAE
once 
he got somewhat older and just wanted to settle down a bit and spend more
time 
with his wife and kids.  I can definitely see some of the attraction...
you 
get to work on a much wider variety of projects than most regular
engineers 
ever would, yet the stress level is probably much lower than those
engineers 
who are facing tight deadlines and still have many unsolved problem. 
Indeed, 
a good FAE can really relieve a lot of that stress by providing real,
working 
solutions to their needs.

Personally I'm suspect of anyone claiming to be an FAE who doesn't
actually 
have access to (or chooses not to use) a workbench, test equipment, and 
whatever else they ought to have to be able to adequately build and test
the 
circuits/ICs/whatever they're recommending.  Unfortunately, this does seem
to 
be a rather large percentage of all FAEs.