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> Try a plain text description of an electronic circuit vs a circuit diagram. It’s called a Hardware Description Language. According to my textbooks, they’re t

by Siira 5y ago

> Try a plain text description of an electronic circuit vs a circuit diagram. It’s called a Hardware Description Language. According to my textbooks, they’re the industry standard. My personal experience certainly prefers them to unusable “diagram” drawing GUIs. > Try a mathematical plot vs plain text tables. You can do plots in unicode. And more importantly, the code that produces the plot is plain text. Pretty much anything regular can be done better with a plain text source that subsequently compiles to more visual mediums.

qayxc 5y ago
> It’s called a Hardware Description Language. According to my textbooks, they’re the industry standard So when confronted with a faulty circuit board with multimeter in hand and bench power supply on stand-by, you are looking at VHDL like this Library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; entity mux is port(S1,S0,D0,D1,D2,D3:in bit; Y:out bit); end mux; architecture data of mux is begin Y<= (not S0 and not S1 and D0) or (S0 and not S1 and D1) or (not S0 and S1 and D2) or (S0 and S1 and D3); end data; to figure out which components might be broken when there's a buck converter that gets no power or where the capacitor is located that should smooth out incoming voltage on a certain bus. Yeah, sure. > You can do plots in unicode. And more importantly, the code that produces the plot is plain text. So you're one of those people who don't listen to electronic music and prefers to read the parameters of the VCAs, LFOs and VCFs instead? After all it's just code that produces the sound waves in the end, no? > Pretty much anything regular can be done better with a plain text source that subsequently compiles to more visual mediums. And again we're back to data storage vs representation. I'm interested in the representation, not the storage format. If you're one of those geniuses that can squint at a quintic formula and say - yep, there's a local maximum at about x=-9.7513, more power to you. The rest of us prefer a curve.

by Siira 5y ago

qayxc 5y ago

> It’s called a Hardware Description Language. According to my textbooks, they’re the industry standard So when confronted with a faulty circuit board with multimeter in hand and bench power supply on stand-by, you are looking at VHDL like this Library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; entity mux is port(S1,S0,D0,D1,D2,D3:in bit; Y:out bit); end mux; architecture data of mux is begin Y<= (not S0 and not S1 and D0) or (S0 and not S1 and D1) or (not S0 and S1 and D2) or (S0 and S1 and D3); end data; to figure out which components might be broken when there's a buck converter that gets no power or where the capacitor is located that should smooth out incoming voltage on a certain bus. Yeah, sure. > You can do plots in unicode. And more importantly, the code that produces the plot is plain text. So you're one of those people who don't listen to electronic music and prefers to read the parameters of the VCAs, LFOs and VCFs instead? After all it's just code that produces the sound waves in the end, no? > Pretty much anything regular can be done better with a plain text source that subsequently compiles to more visual mediums. And again we're back to data storage vs representation. I'm interested in the representation, not the storage format. If you're one of those geniuses that can squint at a quintic formula and say - yep, there's a local maximum at about x=-9.7513, more power to you. The rest of us prefer a curve.