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Parts are pretty much instant, pcb turn around times are 3 to 15 days depending on how complex they are. Even in the bad old days of punch cards and priesthood
by llm_trw 2y ago
Parts are pretty much instant, pcb turn around times are 3 to 15 days depending on how complex they are.
Even in the bad old days of punch cards and priesthoods the turn around for software was faster.
I have a little pcb mill in the garage that I use for prototypes.
To this day I've not met another EE that knows what a voronoi mapping is, or why you'd want one. In a previous startup where I was the software engineer I got through more prototypes for the analogue signal paths in an afternoon than the two other EEs had in the previous week.
- YakBizzarro 2y agoOnly for simple pcb. If you are making multi-layer pcb with complex stacks, pcb manufacturing and soldering (with associated tooling setup, validation and so) are easily 2 months of turnaround
- mrmlz 2y agoWell to be fair if you add "validation" the turnaround for any noncomplex piece of software can reach months pretty quickly as well. But yeah I'm not gonna argue that sw isn't faster than hw in 99% of the cases.
- llm_trw 2y agoUp to 4 layers is pretty standard these days. It's more than 8 where you start running into issues.