Daily Archives: 2021-03-22

Article note: I've been wondering where the DuPont name for Berg Mini-PV clones came from for years. Apparently it really is a _super_ tenuous connection that Berg was a subsidiary of DuPont at the time the clone market took off.

Article note: I'd never run into this before. On a quick skim, it's pleasingly readable, very broad, and highly pragmatic. I think it's going on the list of accessible primers on hard topics I suggest to students, (Things like Jorg Arndt's "Matters Computational" (aka fxtbook) for "That stuff you didn't learn how to apply in your algorithms or Numerical Methods classes" and Horowitz and Hill's The Art of Electronics for "That stuff you didn't learn how to apply from your Circuits/Electronics courses."