From: news@analogconsultants.com   
      
   On 11/29/25 3:52 PM, Don Y wrote:   
   > On 11/26/2025 2:55 PM, ehsjr wrote:   
   >>> The real problem will be analog hardware design. I am often yanked   
   >>> back out of retirement   
   >>   
   >> Familiar with being dragged out of retirement.  At first it was sort   
   >> of fun, but it got old.   
   >   
   > Society/industry has cast its judgement that these skills are not   
   > important.   
      
      
   Industry certainly has not. Latest when something really hits the fan   
   they learn the lesson. Then the phone at people like me rings.   
      
   Yet, even our professors 40+ years ago said that. "You are only learning   
   this for the exams. By the time you graduate all this stuff will be   
   handled by ICs and processors". Phhht ...   
      
   Almost all my mates believed that nonsense and went into digital and   
   software. I did not. My parents have always instilled in us not to pay   
   much attention to opinions or to predictions by others.   
      
      
   > I.e., there are more than enough existing people with the necessary   
   > skill to   
   > address the bulk of the market demand.  (if they are located in the wrong   
   > places, that's a logistical problem).   
   >   
      
   Absolutely not. There aren't nearly enough good analog HW designers and   
   that problem is worldwide. It is being execerbated by two trends. One is   
   that us old farts are retiring and the other is that digital turns into   
   analog when you get into the gigeehoitzes. "Why do we see several pulses   
   here where only one went out?"   
      
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