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by esmi 8y ago
What does leaving the sandbox mean when implementing an FPGA? I'm not aware of any soft resource one can't completely control in Vivado/Xilinx as every hard resource can be completely described in your own design via the prim
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by esmi 8y ago
This may have been the case when this article was written but I don’t think it’s the case now. Many universities have graduate and undergraduate computational science programs now. https://www.siam.org/Students-Education&#x
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by esmi 8y ago
My ritual is checking hacker news. I practice it often.
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by esmi 8y ago
Of any kind... I think the uA741 is about as open as any IC design can possibly be at this point. Still available from many places. Here is one. http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/ua741.pdf
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by esmi 8y ago
If a doctor is sued for malpractice it means someone thinks there is a possibility the doctor made a mistake. After all, doctors win lawsuits sometimes too. The doctors are ordering the extra tests to avoid the lawsuit being raised in the
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by esmi 8y ago
There are many writing apps available, for example Microsoft Word free edition. One does not have to compose in a text box. Use the app to write it then copy and paste the result.
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by esmi 8y ago
This is really interesting. Did you have to do anything special to make it work in OSX?
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by esmi 8y ago
Nice article. If I understand it correctly I would argue it’s the FAB’s role. :)
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by esmi 8y ago
Google has that luxury because they make their money on ads. If their primary source of revenue was selling a database product (like say oracle) then there may have been a different decision made there.
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by esmi 8y ago
What in the EDA industry is preventing this? Every CAD system I know of supports ways of group circuits into modules and libraries for multiple Instantation. And those libraries are distributable.
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by esmi 8y ago
What even is this project? There are no details on the DARPA page either. Is it for PCB design, ASIC design or both? Is a constant current source also considered a “small chip” or just digital designs? Basically every EDA tool already has
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by esmi 8y ago
Although they don’t have 20MHz of bandwidth and the necessary sample rate there are USB3 power delivery controllers on the market today which do exactly that. Some even embed the microcontroller too.
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by esmi 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. The equivalent of a power factor conversion stage at input makes this type of attack impossible unless they have access inside the product.
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by esmi 8y ago
Like this? https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/fpga-design.html
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by esmi 8y ago
Does the Google Cloud API for TensorFlow expose any hardware details? I am just curious why Google announces these hardware details at all.
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by esmi 8y ago
The article addresses this question. "While net-zero remains an admirable goal, getting there is not yet cost-effective, state officials and experts said. And it fails to address the state’s ultimate goal of curbing global warming. Bec
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by esmi 8y ago
I suppose it worked as China does manufacture most of the world's panels but these guys would disagree with your comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Solar They were the number 3 manufacturer in 2017 an
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by esmi 8y ago
It’s simplicity is probably what makes it the best choice.
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by esmi 8y ago
Perhaps that includes labor and permits, not insignificant costs
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by esmi 8y ago
I definitely like that series as well but I'd add: f) Written with a rhythmic metre -- An example being Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen. It almost feels like one sings this book rather than read it. I've noticed with the books
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by esmi 9y ago
Instructions for adding a 3rd party model to LTSpice http://www.linear.com/solutions/4678
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by esmi 9y ago
My workflow is very similar. But I am often forced to use matlab for simulation because the vendors I work with only deliver matlab libraries. They choose matlab because many engineers know how to use it and have licenses for it but also
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by esmi 9y ago
Or they expect you to ask for context.
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by esmi 9y ago
It was reported that Standford made more than $300M off their shares and they get yearly royalties. I think they did ok on that deal. https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/12/21/stanfords-ideas-gener...
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by esmi 9y ago
"I'm just saying that the way compensation is determined currently ... It encourages rushing into "hot" technologies" If one replaces the word "hot" with "high demand" then isn't that a desi
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by esmi 9y ago
"You run idealized versions of systems in your head." Definitely true but running idealized approximations of systems [1] are also sufficient, at least in my experience, to get a rough idea of where a bug might be a majority of th
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by esmi 9y ago
I suppose could estimate if I knew the number of GPUs sold but I've only seen estimates of that. As far as I know nVidia doesn't give their shipment numbers.
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by esmi 9y ago
Where is the source for how many wafers nvidia buys? That's usually confidential information.
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by esmi 9y ago
Definitely a tiny fraction of the industry but also a tiny fraction of just TSMC. For reference, they claim they did 10 million wafers in 2016. http://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/manufacturing/f...
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by esmi 9y ago
Given your use case is a Mac, any Mac, running OSX even an option? I also use FPGA cards and what not but I do so in a separate Linux box because all the tools I need to for the setup only have native Linux versions. And if all you need i

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