Oxide and Friends
Hosted by Adam Leventhal and Bryan Cantrill · Oxide Computer Company
4.8from 193 ratings
- 188
- Episodes
- 90
- Transcribed
- 193
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Oxide and Friends
Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
- Publisher
- Oxide Computer Company
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 4 May 2021
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
90 of 188 episodes have a transcript.
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
For Want of a Resistor
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI Detection with Max Spero
Inside a recent episode
For Want of a Resistor
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, so any signal that's high speed or has really fast rise and fall times has a lot of high frequency content. If you remember back in the old days of your RF class or your electromagnetics class, any time you have an impedance, which is a combination of the inductance and capacitance along the line, just super simplify it, but the impedance of a transmission line anytime there's a change there's a reflection and so if you have an impedance change it causes reflections which cause your signal will look like garbage and that is generally not preferable especially when you have something like an open circuit which is what the input of this of these block levers looks like and all PCIe devices, all their clock input pins all have this structure where it's basically just open circuit. […]
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- Robert "RFK" Keith
- Eric Aasen
- Scott Tagwerker
- Steve Tuck
- Steve Karam
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 74 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 119 ratings
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Oxide and Friends?
Adam Leventhal and Bryan Cantrill host the show. Published by Oxide Computer Company.
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