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In defense of HW engineers, they're often staring at a cost of goods spreadsheet. Earlier in my career, I had a driver that compiled to about 8500 bytes. I not
by CalChris 10y ago
In defense of HW engineers, they're often staring at a cost of goods spreadsheet.
Earlier in my career, I had a driver that compiled to about 8500 bytes. I noticed the part was spec'd at 16K and wondered if it could get re-spec'd at 8K if I got it down to 8K. Yep and I got mad props from the HW types.
- aswanson 10y agoUnderstood, but when they stare at that COG sheet they should also have the prescence of mind to look for hidden costs. A toolchain and IDE with a C compiler is going to cost much less in the end to the project than a 8K chip with an assembler and no debug environment/support tools will save it. It's very easy to be penny wise and pound foolish in this area.