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Agree completely that it is a deal breaker. But don’t be too hard on the hardware engineers, sometimes the BOM can not afford the extra 17 cents.
by dbcurtis 8y ago
Agree completely that it is a deal breaker. But don’t be too hard on the hardware engineers, sometimes the BOM can not afford the extra 17 cents.
- gmueckl 8y agoI guess the tone came out wrong. I understand why we got the HW we got. In this case it wasn't even about cost. The power available to the device as a whole was so low that we were counting microamps. It was all incredibly tight: Just switching on the wrong SoC feature would bring the entire thing outside the envelope. Even the contents of the passive LCD affected power consumption in adverse ways. Showing a checkerboard pattern could make the device fail.