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Rhythm and Flow(thinking-in-practice.com)
2 points by khitchdee 14y ago|0 comments
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Trippy
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by khitchdee 14y ago
The memory, hard disk and CPU speed requirement of modern day PCs has also gone up substantially. I wouldn't call them lean. That, in my opinion, is where the future lies and to get there we have to get closer to the hardware, not abstract
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by khitchdee 14y ago
All this abstraction with garbage collection and virtual memory etc etc is only taking us further away from the hardware. In some ways its good to think like a 1975 programmer because you are acknowledging the fact that there's hardware und
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Notion Ink India
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The original idea to do this came as a result of extrapolating this trend to add custom processing features to general purpose processing microprocessors in the form of SOCs. If you extrapolate out from the SOC, over time, the role of the m
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by khitchdee 14y ago
I guess I'm saying the race to sustain Moore's law may be a pointless race if we change the programmibility assumption in our ICs.
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by khitchdee 14y ago
Your words are encouraging and discouraging at the same time. Nice post. 10 million PCs sell yearly in India in a population of 1 billion.
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The longer you stick with your hardware the greener the process gets. Still, software has spoilt us for choice and I agree few people write software that lasts.
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For the application that I have in mind which is low cost computing alternatives for India's tech isolated millions, I think we could get by with a 320x240 resolution screen which means each frame would be pretty small and we should be able
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by khitchdee 14y ago
We are actually planning to build gadgets based on fixed function chips which are significantly greener than microprocessor based solutions. Intel et al at the same time are taking microprocessor based design to its logical next steps. We w
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by khitchdee 14y ago
I'm looking at this going forward. In India, PC penetration is 2-3%. For the 97% remaining if we can build something that satisfies their top 3 information requirments cheap enough, we can really make a difference in people's lives.
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by khitchdee 14y ago
Yet we keep upgrading our hardware
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Much lower
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The point of the write-up is to highlight the fact that you don't have to assume programmable function is a better alternative to fixed function under all circumstances, an assumption we have made for the last 40 years.
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You would refresh your technology at some rate say once a year and try to match it with rate of the other technology suppliers just like in the microprocessor case. Your cadence is a little shorter.
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If you could identify a large population of users that could be serviced with a narrow usage scenario and they agreed to stick with their function for say a year, you could build a viable solution the fixed-function way. For example, in Ind
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by khitchdee 14y ago
Today's microprocessors use a billion gates and have to be produced on 22nm advanced processes to fit. The energy spent in producing each chip is pretty high. In the fixed function case, the gate count is a lot lower so you can use an older
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by khitchdee 14y ago
The Intels of the world are trying to reduce the power consumption of their microprocessor based solutions and therefore claim greenness. The point of this write up is to highlight the fact that fundamentally, the microprocessor based archi
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by khitchdee 14y ago
For the Javascript part, you would need a programmable function block. One option would be not to support Javascript (OK in certain parts of the world). You could organize your chip so that there are several fixed function blocks for things
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Microprocessors aren't green(khitchdee.forumatic.com)
14 points by khitchdee 14y ago|47 comments
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by khitchdee 14y ago
To solve larger problems, you need to strategize over longer periods of time. As our attention spans are getting shorter, so is our longer term corporate focus. Look at Intel as an example of an established corporate player of over 40 years
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Turning microprocessor based computing on its head(khitchdee.wordpress.com)
2 points by khitchdee 14y ago|0 comments
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If you start a startup based on a hardware gadget idea, you can do the initial design of both the hardware and the software and then as you grow you can farm out parts of the process. I am not suggesting you would build a whole gadget all b
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by khitchdee 14y ago
As an engineer you are trained to optimize. As you get older you optimize for the fact that you're more experienced and hence a better decision maker and you have less patience for routine everyday tasks. You choose to take on work that dif
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by khitchdee 14y ago
I agree. If you're not scared of designing hardware and you have been exposed to software, it puts you in a position where you can build a physical object and also program its behavior. You can begin product level design just as a big playe