TI Knowledge
In 1958, TI engineer Jack Kilby invented this groundbreaking technology, earning him a Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 2000.
What is the integrated circuit (IC)?
This gaming company makes both the PlayStation and the DualSense controller.
What is Sony?
This intern previously worked at a correctional facility
Isaiah Salek
This movie series features orcs, elves, and rings of power.
What is The Lord of the Rings?
This city is protected by Batman.
What is Gotham?
In a wide VIN buck converter, this switching element — often a high-side FET — must withstand the full input voltage during its off state, making its voltage rating a critical design parameter.
What is a MOSFET (power switch)?
In Call of Duty, this mode drops players onto a large map and the last one standing wins.
What is Battle Royale / Warzone?
This person was the Site Director for this PHX site prior to Ahmed and was known for his saying "Back to work"
Who is Bob Oppen?
In Harry Potter, this spell is used to disarm an opponent.
What is Expelliarmus?
This Avenger can shrink to the size of an insect.
Who is Ant-Man?
At very high input voltages and high switching frequencies, wide VIN bucks face increased losses due to this phenomenon, caused by the overlap of voltage and current during MOSFET switching transitions.
What are switching losses (or transition losses)?
This chemical symbol-inspired company created Half-Life, Portal, and Steam.
What is Valve?
This person is the one who puts together all of the fun events that happen at the end of every month in the PHX office
Who is Brandon Dwayne Anderson?
In Game of Thrones, who originally forges the Iron Throne?
Who is Aegon the Conqueror?
Doctor Strange was tasked with protecting this Infinity Stone while serving as Sorcerer Supreme.
What is the Time Stone?
Due to GaN FETs having near-zero reverse recovery charge, buck converters can operate at much higher values of this parameter without significant efficiency loss, enabling smaller passives and higher power density.
What is switching frequency?
This game popularized the “battle bus” before Battle Royale was mainstream.
What is Fortnite?
This is the guy that the high-risk, breakthrough innovation center at Texas Instruments (TI), with facilities in Dallas, Silicon Valley, and India is named after.
Who is Jack Kilby?
This creature battles Gandalf on the Bridge of Khazad-dûm.
What is the Balrog?
This Marvel villain once defeated the entire X-Men team single-handedly.
Who is Apocalypse? (accept Magneto variant too)
A digital spread spectrum technique that spreads energy in multiple frequency bands and was developed by a manger from the PHX site.
What is DRSS (Dual Random Spread Spectrum) (Paul Curtis)
In World of Warcraft, this hidden boss drops the mount “Ashes of Al’ar.”
Answer: Who is Kael’thas Sunstrider?
This person is the pit master of the office.
Who is Francisco Espinoza?
This hypothetical Sith and Jedi power balance concept is central to Anakin’s prophecy.
What is the Chosen One prophecy / Balance of the Force?
This timeline event in Marvel resets multiple universes into Battleworld.
What is Secret Wars (2015)?