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by PhaseLockk 5mo ago
You can learn about the origin of the 555 timer from its creator in his free book here: http://www.designinganalogchips.com/ Fun fact: his original concept needed 9 pins and therefore was going be forced to have a 14 pin pa
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by PhaseLockk 4y ago
It's not that there is zero applicable knowledge transfer, but there are definitely some fundamental differences between digital components and analog power devices, in particular. For digital, the transistor are CMOS, optimized to be
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by PhaseLockk 4y ago
That's what all those citations are for.
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by PhaseLockk 4y ago
He was saying that the III of C major is the V of A minor, and so if you are planning to play in A minor using a set of chords pulled from C major, you may want to add a III alongside the iii.
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by PhaseLockk 4y ago
The skills needed to create a chip and the skills needed to create chip design software are fundamentally different. Of all the engineers I've met who work on the physical implementation and timing closure of digital chips, only a very
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by PhaseLockk 5y ago
Mario Kart on Wii was released in 2008, when the oldest of Gen-Z would have been 11 years old. I'm pretty sure that's too young to be setting design trends.
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by PhaseLockk 5y ago
I have no idea if there are systems on a submarine that might experience extreme temperatures. But for the hull, since it is constantly surrounded by liquid water, I would expect that it does not regularly experience temperatures less than
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by PhaseLockk 5y ago
This may not be the level of detail you are looking for, but I found this short tutorial to be effective at explaining the basics: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ Ultimately, I think using synthesizers does entail a lo
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by PhaseLockk 5y ago
Maybe I can try to explain the parent comment's point a different way. When saying that rust works on types and not on arbitrary specifications, I think he is saying that rust is more limited than languages that support arbitrary speci
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by PhaseLockk 5y ago
In the original naming scheme, 2nm would be the length of the transistor gate, which is the smallest feature on the device, not a dimension of the whole transistor. It's not meaningful to compare 2nm to the area numbers given above.
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by PhaseLockk 6y ago
Exactly this. It may be useful for OP to consider what the hypothetical opposite of significant digits would be: insignificant digits, ie. digits that tell you nothing. A leading zero can be omitted from a number without any loss of informa
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by PhaseLockk 6y ago
Conceptually HDL is actually very similar to those cases, but with an important difference: simulated time. In an HDL simulator, the simulator starts executing by running code designated to run at time 0 (in Verilog, this is specified using
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by PhaseLockk 6y ago
Yes. A typical SoC is assembled using thousands of lines of TCL to drive the various EDA tools that are involved in the design process.
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
A typical way to handle this in a functional language would be to create a datatype with a name like "PositiveInt", which just contains an Int inside it. However, in a language like OCaml, you can make it so that users of this typ
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
"Is there any evidence that tweets have meaning? I could easily imagine a world where posters fool themselves into thinking the words they wrote contained their intentions, while readers fooled themselves into thinking they had uncover
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
I'm not that guy, but here's my interpretation: tcl is used as the embedded scripting language in the vast majority of EDA tools. In some ways it performs this job quite well, with tool companies providing functions which parse th
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
There are many effects that contribute to semiconductor aging. Thermal stress and diffusion, as you and the child comment suggested, are definitely part of it. There is also electromigration, which can cause the interconnect to fail. In adv
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
Following this logic, if a popular rust crate doesn't prioritize security, it can potentially change people's risk assessment of the rust ecosystem as a whole. So this maintainer's actions could have negative effects on other
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
> You could (and perhaps should) take the opinion that one should care about security, but there is no obligation (legal, financial, or moral) that requires an open source maintainer to care about anything. I was taught that part of bein
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the effect you are discussing has to do with the uncertainty relationship inherent to the Fourier Transform [0]. This is very closely related to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and states you cannot simultaneously
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
If you click through to the datasheet, you can see the frequency response of each of the 5 probes. Each probe is capable of picking up signals down to low frequency, but they only have good gain around a particular frequency band. So it&#x2
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
To me, that appeared to simply be effective communication. Raising a potentially serious issue early rather than waiting until all options have been exhausted and giving the security lead no time to react. Had they not been able to succeed,
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
It seems the concern is that if a foreign power is suspicious that someone might be a spy, they can collect their DNA and run it against this database. If the spy's relatives are in the database, they will be flagged, and likely make i
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
FancyZones looks like a godsend for those with ultrawide monitors. Not being able to effectively divide up the space was always a drawback compared with just having two normal sized monitors, this could solve that issue.
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
What is the problem with companies offering sales?
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
I can't see the image you're referring to at the moment, but I imagine the fuzziness you are seeing is due to this fact: chips perform better if the features are smaller. Because of this, manufacturers want to make chip features a
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
> The company already has cut emissions substantially, at the cost of $1 billion so far. And it has an intermediate goal to cut emissions by 60% (relative to 2008 levels) by 2030. > While 2050 might sound a long way away, ships are bu
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
My understanding is that the original commits will eventually be cleaned up during garbage collection if there is nothing else pointing to them. Is that correct?
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by PhaseLockk 7y ago
I had the video issue, but I disabled by selecting this option: Settings ~> Video ~> Turn off my video when joining meeting. I can still manually enable video if it's needed.
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by PhaseLockk 8y ago
> "to sell" is most often understood to be completed transaction. That is certainly the understanding of laymen. However, if you talk to people who work in sales, and look at their "pipelines" for creating sales leads

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