Bill Schweber

Bill Schweber

Bill Schweber

Bill Schweber is an electronics engineer who has written three textbooks on electronic communications systems, as well as hundreds of technical articles, opinion columns, and product features.

In past roles, he worked as a technical website manager for multiple EE Times sites and as both Executive Editor and Analog Editor at EDN. At Analog Devices, he was in marketing communications; as a result, he has been on both sides of the technical PR function, presenting company products, stories, and messages to the media and also as the recipient of these. Prior to the marcom role at Analog, Bill was Associate Editor of its respected technical journal, and also worked in its product marketing and applications engineering groups.

Before those roles, he was at Instron Corp., doing hands-on analog- and power-circuit design and systems integration for materials-testing machine controls. He has a BSEE from Columbia University and an MSEE from the University of Massachusetts, is a Registered Professional Engineer, and holds an Advanced Class amateur radio license.

He has also planned, written, and presented online courses on a variety of engineering topics, including MOSFET basics, ADC selection, and driving LEDs.

Areas of interest of the author: Supply Passive Components Measurement Sensors Technology of Electronic Components Medicine Amplifiers Analogue Design Advanced Technologies Light

Publications on RadioLocman by the author Bill Schweber:

  1. Micro-Sized Solar Harvester Extends Run Time for Wearables, IoT Nodes
    Small-scale energy harvesting is often an attractive option for supplemental powering of devices...
    01-04-2021
  2. Goodbye 3AG fuse, we'll miss you
    Fuses are an essential part of many system designs, and we’ve come to depend on them since...
    24-02-2021
  3. Magnetic-Field Navigation as an «Alternative» GPS?
    Using measurements of anomalies in the Earth’s magnetic field and machine learning to extract...
    23-12-2020
  4. MEMS-Like Accelerometer-Microphone Captures Lung, Cardiac "Vibe" for New Insight
    A wearable millimeter-sized accelerometer functions as a microphone to capture the vibrations...
    21-08-2020
  5. Learning to like high-voltage op-amp ICs
    A lot of the analog-circuit conversation these days is centered on low-power and thus low-voltage...
    18-08-2020
  6. "Linear" PTC Thermistors Overcome NTC Temperature-Sensing Shortcomings
    A family of PTC thermistors conquers the calibration and linearity errors associated with...
    17-06-2020
  7. E-fuses: warming up to higher-current applications
    As a cautious analog-centric engineer, I have always liked traditional thermal-based fuses and been...
    13-05-2020
  8. The Flyback Power-Supply Architecture and Operation
    The flyback topology is a versatile, widely used, switched-mode power-supply design with some...
    30-04-2020
  9. Not a Joke: Harvest Energy from the Cold Night Sky
    Applying the physics principle of radiative sky cooling, a team was able to harvest a small but...
    28-04-2020
  10. Smarter diode multiplexing for temperature sensing
    Where there is power there is heat, and where there is heat there is often a need to sense...
    29-10-2019
  11. Whatever Happened to CFLs?
    Not too long ago, the compact fluorescent lamp was supposed to be the efficient and perhaps...
    04-06-2019
  12. When what's old is new again, with a twist
    The other day, while juggling a pile of recorded and blank videotapes for my VCR (please, no...
    15-06-2017
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