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by egsmi 6y ago
I can understand the battery but admit the case is weaker for screen and other components. If someone gets hurt using an Apple product it’s international news [1] and everyone ignores the reports 5 days later when it shown they were using a
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by egsmi 6y ago
It's a lot of information for a forum comment. I will provide a pointer though. I think the book at cmosvlsi.com is pretty good for an introduction to the realities of modern digital IC design. For more information on the topic of thi
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by egsmi 6y ago
That’s really interesting. It seems like a foreign world compared to what I’m used to. :)
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by egsmi 6y ago
This is the one I personally have been waiting for. Thanks! On the power distribution did you notice any bypassing? There are a number of ways to do it now. I have no idea how they did it, if at all, in the 70s. Also, did you notice any
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by egsmi 6y ago
That’s interesting. Do you notice any meaningful loss of productivity during the 65WPM time compared to the 90WPM time? I just did a word count on some emails I write and they’re usually about 100 words, but I know they took about 10 minut
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by egsmi 6y ago
New AI workloads also run on dedicated blocks. I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A11#Neural_Engine
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by egsmi 6y ago
That makes sense. That’s the current limiting resistor. It protects the protection. See page 12 of this deck. http://www.eng.biu.ac.il/temanad/files/2017/02/Lecture-9-IO....
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by egsmi 6y ago
DFT = Design For Test https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_testing They have a resistor to ground in parallel with the buffer? I get the diode but I can only assume the resistor is a weak pull to prevent charge
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by egsmi 6y ago
Can you write about how they did IO then? For example, was there ESD protection? I’d be interested in a compare and contrast to a MOSIS or UoU IO PAD cell. http://pages.hmc.edu/harris/cmosvlsi/4e/lect/le
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by egsmi 6y ago
Is it “a lot more emphasis” or that the math education of STEM students should be rebalanced? I’m an EE and I think I had a math class every quarter for two years if I remember right. I tend to agree with Strang’s too much calculus essay.
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by egsmi 6y ago
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ratatouille In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: "Anyone can cook." But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he mean
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by egsmi 6y ago
That’s actually an interesting reply to the parent because, according to his book, his work was not rigorous and all needed to be redone. https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-write-any-code-at-X-or-Z...
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by egsmi 6y ago
It’s surprising, to me, that the address adder and the ALU are so comparable in area. I’m guessing the adder is like 1/3 the size of the ALU even though the ALU has so much more functionality. My guess is the flip flops needed to regi
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by egsmi 6y ago
On average this analysis makes sense but cash flow is also important to consider. If the thing you’re investing in to get 7% doesn’t make payments, or has a single bad year and doesn’t yield like it’s supposed to, you could be up the creek
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by egsmi 6y ago
I’m not saying your claim is wrong but it’s not clear to me how that article backs the claim that China is pushing hard on RISC-V. It seems more like the old CEO of Arm China was doing no good very bad things, most likely for his own benef
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by egsmi 6y ago
Obviously I care about my computer. But I care more about my life. Get a proper charger people. http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and...
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by egsmi 6y ago
I’m sure it depends on product and category. It’s hard to get a legitimate STM32 on a Blue Pill, for example, from Amazon. But I’ve never received a fake Apple charger. My wife has received two fake BCBG dresses from Amazon and will no l
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by egsmi 6y ago
Technically we’re selling it to China, not giving it. Notice: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_equipment_sale...
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by egsmi 6y ago
That’s crazy. It seems like it would make the software so much harder but I guess it would get the density up. I wonder how they closed timing.
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by egsmi 6y ago
How interesting. I didn’t think differential clocks where a thing back then. Or maybe they’re not differential and they’re just routed together because it’s convenient. Since they store with coupled inverters I can see why having both pha
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by egsmi 6y ago
In the suspected auto layout sections does it follow a modern standard cell convention?
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by egsmi 6y ago
Kens, I love the series on the 8086. For the next article can you go over how Intel did clock distribution?