skaevola

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by skaevola 3y ago
What board did you use?
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by skaevola 5y ago
If you're not already aware, there's Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/
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by skaevola 6y ago
Samsung has a 14nm fab in Austin and GF has a 12nm (?) fab in New York.
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by skaevola 6y ago
Any resource recommendations to learn this skill?
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by skaevola 6y ago
The Garmin Watches don't have DRAM for power reasons. The processor is a memory constrained microcontroller without a hardware memory management unit. Without the MMU you don't get as powerful memory virtualization or process isol
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by skaevola 6y ago
Why can't I buy an American made toaster? This isn't a gotcha -- I actually tried a few weeks ago and all I found for my trouble was this website: https://buyingamericanblog.com/2017/05/29/quest-for-
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by skaevola 7y ago
A big reason seems to be the difficulty of financing manufacturing operations in America. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/financing-advance...
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by skaevola 7y ago
I've looked at the financials of hearing aid companies before. And the short answer is that the money is not going to the hearing aid company. Of the $5k you spent on your hearing aid, the hearing aid company was probably paid $500, an
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by skaevola 7y ago
The problem is that most consumers' revealed preference is for better performance rather than replaceability or device longevity (I know some people here will express a different preference, but you are a minority of consumers). Consum
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by skaevola 8y ago
I can't speak to the CC26xx series specifically, but normally deeply embedded cores running a ROM stack like that have some additional SRAM which can be loaded at boot for firmware patches.
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IEEE Chip Hall of Fame(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by skaevola 9y ago|0 comments
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by skaevola 10y ago
It's so amazing how electronics have progressed. a startup called Octavio Systemsn is now selling a single package that can run a Linux system. I wouldn't count it as running Linux on a single chip, (power system, microprocessor,
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by skaevola 10y ago
OSH Park is very cheap and good for bare boards: https://oshpark.com/ If you want somebody to populate the boards for you, I love Macrofab: https://macrofab.com/
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by skaevola 10y ago
This video was very cool. Are there any IC's that can perform analog computing for neural networks on the market now? I'm picturing something like an FPGA but with a bunch of op amps that you can connect into summers or amplifiers
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by skaevola 10y ago
What are the advantages of analog computing for this application?
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by skaevola 10y ago
Advanced Circuits is not the cheapest American pcb manufacturer. OSH Park is much cheaper.
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by skaevola 11y ago
You're wrong http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida... Don't worry about the political climate too much though. Plenty of Californians are moving here, many intent on advo
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by skaevola 11y ago
This is actually not true, here's a quote from the link that I posted. "Conservatives also appear to be more generous than liberals in nonfinancial ways. People in red states are considerably more likely to volunteer for good caus
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by skaevola 11y ago
"Republicans are less empathetic towards their fellow citizens" Seriously? It's well established that conservatives/republicans donate more to charity. Here's Nicholas Kristoff's column on it: http:/&#x2F
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by skaevola 11y ago
Freescale's fabs in the U.S. are all very old (like early 1990's old). AFAIK they only manufacture analog and MEMS type stuff there. I think TSMC manufactures their MCU, MPU's, and most other digital electronics. This is the
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by skaevola 11y ago
Really cool app, and a shame Apple rejected it. Using a spoon was a very clever idea. Why did you choose to display weight in grams to 3 decimal points when the measurements are only accurate to within 3g? It would be better to not display
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by skaevola 11y ago
So the university goes through this process with all semiconductor companies that are developing processors, just to be sure that they're not infringing?
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by skaevola 11y ago
I'm curious how the university could discover that Apple was using its patent. The internal characteristics of the processor must be secret, right? Do they examine die photos and reconstruct the gate netlist?
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by skaevola 11y ago
I hadn't heard of the turtle head method before so I searched and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hcKERTnNi0 What an awful way to teach.
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by skaevola 11y ago
I'm not convinced that believing in something false is always bad. For example, there's a concept in psychology called an "internal locus of control", which basically means believing that you have control over aspects of
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by skaevola 11y ago
Is it? I much prefer the interpretation about rugged individualism. It's not surprising to me that that's the interpretation that caught on in America. This other interpretation seems so cynical. "Yeah, choices in life don&#x
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by skaevola 11y ago
Is this statement parody? If not, then you are incredibly ignorant about China.
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by skaevola 11y ago
I don't think that's a good idea. Frankly, the secret to a magic trick has no value. It's always disappointing. What's entertaining is the effect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCxPT7UUkkY
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by skaevola 11y ago
How do you deal with mosquitos?
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by skaevola 11y ago
The referenced Bolt blog post is a bit more substantial: https://medium.com/@BoltVC/how-it-s-made-series-beats-by-dre...

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