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Pretty much all USB chips have a fully programmable CPU when you go into the data sheets. It feels silly for simple hid or charging devices but basic microcontr
by AnotherGoodName 3y ago
Pretty much all USB chips have a fully programmable CPU when you go into the data sheets. It feels silly for simple hid or charging devices but basic microcontrollers are cheap and actually save costs compared to asics.
- hinkley 3y agoI still want to see postgres or sqlite running straight on a storage controller some day. They probably don’t have enough memory to do it well though.
- lmm 3y agoBooting Linux on a hard drive was what, 15 years ago now?
- hinkley 3y agoHave you ever tried to google that?
- lmm 3y agoYes - up until a few years ago it was easy to find by googling, but now google has degraded to the point where I can't manage it.
- Dah00n 3y agoYeah sure, people on HN says this all the time, but in reality it isn't true like a lot of comments getting repeated on here. I found it on the first try.
- hinkley 3y agoI’ve tried many times to find it. Don’t be an ass. As I told your more helpful compatriot, not everyone gets the same results.
- winrid 3y agoDo you mean this? https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1 https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1 Searched "run linux on hard drive without cpu or ram" on Google - third result.
- hinkley 3y agoNot everyone gets the same results. The closest I could find - with your search query - was #6, and it’s a Reddit conversation that contains this link. I don’t usually click on Reddit links. If you use DDG it’s nowhere to be found.
- winrid 3y agoactually yeah sorry it was in a Reddit post. I usually do click on Reddit links, or add "reddit" into my query, as it makes Google much more useful.
- lmm 3y agoThat looks like it, yeah. Nowhere on my first few pages of Google for that query, shrug.
- petermcneeley 3y agoI would also argue that this is another example of software eating the world. The role of the electrical engineer is diminished day by day.
- etrautmann 3y agoNah - there are lots of places where you need EEs still. Anything that interfaces with the world. Having programmability does not move most challenges out of the domain of EE. Much of it is less visible than the output of a software role perhaps.
- FredPret 3y agoThere will always be problems that can only be solved by an EE, chem eng, mech eng, etc. But the juiciest engineering challenges involve figuring out business logic / mission decisions. This is done increasingly in software while the other disciplines increasingly make only the interfaces.
- FredPret 3y agoThe role of the non-software engineer, bit just electrical
- Almondsetat 3y agothe role of the electrical engineer who doesn't know a thing about programming is diminished day by day*
- Shawnj2 3y agoWhere I work they were considering using an FPGA over an MCU for a certain task but decided against it because the FPGA couldn’t reach the same low power level as the MCU
- dclowd9901 3y agoYeesh. Beware the random wall wart I guess.
- masklinn 3y agoWall warts are not even the biggest worry: https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable