{"id":27847,"date":"2020-04-17T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=27847"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:13:52","slug":"how-are-digilents-engineers-making-the-most-of-working-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/how-are-digilents-engineers-making-the-most-of-working-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are Digilent’s Engineers Making the Most of Working From Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Engineers across the globe have been forced out of their labs and into their living rooms, asked to continue working on whatever projects they were prior to being self-quarantined. The engineers at Digilent are no exception – we still have our own initiatives to work on as well. To that end, just how are the employees of a technology company that is specially suited for working from home doing it? Surprise! They’re using the products they helped to create. We caught up with Ioan, one of our hardware engineers in Romania, and talked to him about how he is keeping up with work while being away from the lab. Ioan even provided the script in case anyone is interested in checking it out themselves.<\/div>\n
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“Lately, I have been steadily working on finishing the newest version of the Genesys ZU<\/a>, the 5EV variant. It’s set to come out later this year, so having to work from home is changing my work dynamic. Luckily, I had a Digital Discovery on my desk, and that’s made doing temperature compensation tests much easier.”<\/div>\n

Want to run a power drift test at home?<\/h2>\n

“Any time you’re doing computing with something similar to a board like the Genesys ZU, it generates heat. That heat affects how efficiently power flows through wires or power rails. A computer’s designer needs to make sure that the power stays within specifications when the board you’re working with gets hot, so that it can continue managing the power and deploy the active heat dissipation it uses (fans etc.). So, I wanted to \u00a0monitor the current measurement drift with temperature on one of the power management units (IC81, IRPS5401) on a powerful computing board. In this case, I used our new Genesys ZU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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