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Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to have ICs that aren’t space-constrained be modular in these applications? In a phone or laptop, obviously it would take too
by headmelted 5y ago
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to have ICs that aren’t space-constrained be modular in these applications?
In a phone or laptop, obviously it would take too much physical space to have such components be changeable, but for vehicles and machinery couldn’t you regulate that common boards/chips/memory be easily accessible and interchangeable to a standard? (Kind of like how you have a fuse panel for your car or a fuse box for your house).
I get that this wouldn’t solve this issue, but it would certainly help by making parts that are susceptible to supply shocks be easily recoverable and reusable.
- hughrr 5y agoThey’re pretty much doing this with MCUs and power at the moment apparently. Designs are moving to modular so you can respin a carrier board for the available stock rapidly rather than have to respin the entire product and stock.
- exmadscientist 5y agoA lot of parts are modular, if you'll accept "standard packages and pinouts" as "modular". And this helps a lot! The problem is that the parts themselves aren't standardized. So often a very careful selection process followed by a requalification is required.