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here is my day-day from this last Friday; 1. Made circuit boards for a Photo-diode circuit(1nA max out. welp!) with Altium previous week. 2. Got bare fabs from
by ultrasounder 4y ago
here is my day-day from this last Friday;
1. Made circuit boards for a Photo-diode circuit(1nA max out. welp!) with Altium previous week.
2. Got bare fabs from local fab-house.
3. Received them, did opens and shorts between power and ground. Also verified internal planes were intact(no dead copper).
4. Stuffed one board(made 5).
5. passed smoke test(huzzah!!). But op-amp output zilch.
6. Debugged the entire afternoon found out that the enable to the reference chip was "pulled-down" instead of "pulled-up". I fixed it the circuit started working and op-amp output high.
In the intermeaning steps between 5 and 6, I tried searching for specific debug tasks using BingAI(I was an early adopter hihi). The results were sub-par. essentially summarizing data sheets. Went direct to the source(ChatGPT) with alarmingly same results. Hence I decided to have the data sheet on one screen and my schematic on the other and traced the connections and found out my error within say 15 minutes.
Long story short, in my professional career AI is not going to be of any immediate help(in its current avatar) for the next 3-4 years. Beyond that I probably would be long retired and gone off grid.
- crop_rotation 4y agoIn your case it is not going to do anything anytime soon (since your work involves interaction with the physical world). The article points out that different jobs get affected differently by changes.
- cyanydeez 4y agoDefinitely, debugging is going to be a manifold problem. Particularly because it's typically not just undocumented behavior but also wrongly documented or inversely documented or it's not parallel safe, etc. Failure modes are entropic