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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
This type of debugging is fine for people just starting out or hobbyists but won't be useful if you're trying to design HDL professionally. You really need to be able to create accurate simulations so you're not debugging on
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
I've had Intel sales people tell me that the entire low end of some their marketed FPGA/ASIC products have never and likely will never be sold
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
Part of the purpose of the document is to sabotage surreptitiously. If you always take shortcuts and something gets messed up, it's easy for people to see that you were the cause. However, if you always insist on doing things through t
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
It's a slow beginning. Tolkien focuses a lot on Hobbit culture as it's important to the morality of the narrative but it picks up very quickly. Oftentimes important events are only briefly summarized by one character to another as
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
The Twilight series has a higher word count than LotR + The Hobbit if that's a more apt comparison for you
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
I understand what you mean about Tolkien, he describes seemingly random crap at length and doesn't really care about the plot, but it's not really accurate to call him verbose. The entirety of the Lord of the Rings has less words
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
Writing a 'book' early in your career definitely sounds like it could open doors but that's a clear edge case. I'm talking about internal documentation. I don't think it's reasonable to put the entire onus of c
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
There is no amount of writing skill that allows people to read complex technical documentation without any effort put into reading comprehension. All you're going to do is put your own career on hold as people see you putting large amo
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
In my experience, writing skill rarely matters as much as people think. A large portion of my coworkers won't bother to read what anyone wrote or put effort into comprehending it. I try to make good documentation but I know it's p
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
But why not just create it directly? To use the article's example, you can just directly fill in or ask questions about the upper triangle of the matrix below. Adding in the anti-requirements just adds the possibility of missing a comb
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
I don't understand the benefit of anti-requirements. It seems trivial to put your attributes in a matrix and identify relationships between them. Randomly making up requirements doesn't seem effective
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are the only way I see accelerators taking off. They reconfigure a lot faster and I believe they have better area utilization at the expense of bit-level programmability. I don't see many us
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
Having lived on both sides of the fence, I feel comfortable blaming the EEs. Many are allergic to basic scripting, don't bother to learn how their tools work, and have an elitist attitude towards other design responsibilities (ex. layo
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
A lot of the simulation software for PCB design is stuck in the 90s. The core of the simulation hasn't changed so it's not too big of a deal from a results perspective. However, it integrates terribly into the workflow so designer
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by oscillonoscope 3y ago
Left-libertarianism is a subset of socialism. Socialism is a wide umbrella term for multiple economic systems that put the people doing the work in charge of the workplace. It has nothing directly to do with a 'harmonious society'
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
From a professional perspective, I have a general annoyance towards raspi or embedded linux more generally. I have been part of multiple projects where there was a push towards prototyping/initial release on Pis and SOMs when a simple
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Under your definition, would embedded programming fall under systems programming or do you see them as distinct areas?
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Have you tried volunteering somewhere? It's a pretty easy way to get social interaction without having to go through a bunch of rigamarole.
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Not that kind of emergency. AM Radio stations are used for disseminating information about weather and road conditions during weather events and natural disasters. Around where I live, there are signs that say "Tune to XXXAM when this
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Engineering change request.
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
That's the intended purpose and origination of these systems. In a traditional hardware firm, marketing is constantly coming up with ideas but you can't constantly change hardware without delaying the project. So you come up with
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Isn't this just an ECR with a phase gate? It seems like a very normal process that's being written about like it's innovative
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Why? It seems like those things are directly related. If I see somebody treating their child poorly then I wouldn't want them caring for my children.
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
I don't think I really agree with that characterization. To take PCB design as an example, you could just as easily say that once you have your blueprints (i.e. manufacturing files) then you're done. I see two big differences betw
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
Because any neutral description of a waterfall process[1] would describe most projects I've been part of [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-gate_process
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
I've been through a couple attempted transitions to agile for hardware. There are some agile elements that I think could work in hardware development but the people pushing the changes have always been too stubborn to recognize when SW
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
This is what I mean by only listening to polemical takes on waterfall. Do you think that anyone advocating for waterfall would actually claim that you never incorporate feedback? That's why you have prototype phases
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
As someone from the hardware world, I feel like very few of the agile evangelists have actually worked on a waterfall project. Everything they say about waterfall seems to come from hearing polemical takes on it. I have never been part of a
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
I think there's a wide difference between actual effective communication and what people call effective communication. The former is characterized by getting to the heart of the problem and finding a resolution quickly while the latter
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by oscillonoscope 4y ago
I just started using nim but the glue aspect was the biggest draw for me. It was pretty easy to hook up a socket interface to a systemVerilog simulation & provide a simple device interface to expose to the SW and systems teams. Previous

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