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by petermonsson 12y ago
The current 30 year interest rate on housing is 2%. That is a fixed rate if you take out a loan. The financial markets are extremely confident in Danes abilities to pay off their debt. Denmark is a safe haven for bonds just after Switzerlan
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by petermonsson 12y ago
Cool stuff. Thanks a bunch. I agree with you that software optimization takes preference, but I have also seen optimized crypto code in assembly that was completely undocumented and unreadable. I hope that Daala won't fall into that tr
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by petermonsson 12y ago
In the video you mentioned that you worked on a bit of RTL for the codec. I am curious on how the codec can be accelerated. You didn't talk much about it, so I am interested in what you have learned. Do you have some info on where most
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by petermonsson 12y ago
It is important to note that no preference is a volunteered response that is a response that was not among the options given in the phone interview. I wish that Gallup had asked how much people care or whether they care at all.
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by petermonsson 12y ago
The original source [0] is much better and includes the most recent data points in the graph and the ever so important margin of error (-/+ 4). The graph is actually much different from the business week article which should cast some
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by petermonsson 12y ago
They found CPU, GPU and cache. What is in the remaining 40% of the chip? There are a lot of individual blocks in there.
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by petermonsson 12y ago
This requires the baseband processor to have control over the audio codec which it may or may not have based on the phone that you have. Of the baseband processor has direct i2c/spi and direct i2s access then, yes, it is possible. If i
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by petermonsson 12y ago
We mainly use GF(2^m) in embedded systems for error correction (FEC, Scrambling, etc.).
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by petermonsson 12y ago
The Intel AES instructions help a lot. According to Wikipedia we use 3.5 cycles/byte. That gives us 128*3.5/3 = 149 ms. If the write speed is around 500mb/a as another potter stated, then the disk encryption is probably not a
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by petermonsson 13y ago
This is a shame. My anecdotic experience is that 9 out of 10 female engineers are solid, productive members of society and 1 out of 10 is marginal. The male side is much worse. Yes there is 1 out of 10 who is really good, but 2 out of 10 ar
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by petermonsson 13y ago
"A later revision of IEEE 754 attempted to remedy this, but the formats it recommended were so inefficient that it has not found much acceptance." IBM put hardware support for the IEEE 754-2008 Decimal Format in their POWER archit
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by petermonsson 13y ago
The original article states that the code is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license. The 3-clause BSD license permits redistribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
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by petermonsson 13y ago
It is open source. You can put it on Github if you want to.
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by petermonsson 13y ago
Did they solve the private contact discovery problem and if yes, how did it go? It sounded really interesting.
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by petermonsson 13y ago
This is probably a stupid question, why can't tier 1 providers (whom I suppose there are relatively few of and who I would expect to incorporate best practices) just decide to kill any NTP monlist UDP that ever crosses any of their NPU
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by petermonsson 13y ago
OK, so the phases aren't an apples to apples comparison to the traditional pipeline stage, but more in line with the TI C6x fetch, decode, execute pipeline which for TI covers something like 4 fetch stages, 2 decode stages and between
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by petermonsson 13y ago
There is something that I can't get to add up here. The phasing claims that there are only 3 pipeline stages compared to 5 in the textbook RISC architecture or 14-16 in a conventional Intel processor, but this can't possibly add u
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by petermonsson 13y ago
NDAs are firmly integrated in the embedded industry. If you could get your hands on any other SoC, you would need to sign an NDA as well. For example Tegra documentation needs an NDA too.
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by petermonsson 13y ago
By that definition even Qualcomm (top 5 semiconductor company) is an NPE as TSMC fabricates their chips. ARM licenses both RTL (code) and GDSII files (the files that a foundry such as TSMC uses to freate masks for fabrication) just as you w
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by petermonsson 13y ago
Ideas 1) Bundle a snapshot of the global contact list with the APK. Assume that end users will be on 3G or WI-FI when installing the program. I suppose that is is worth looking at the assumption about what is the largest download that we ca
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by petermonsson 13y ago
I seem to get the active/passive voice criticism a lot. It comes from both sides of the table. Do you have references on what to prefer? They can be opinionated, but preferably I would like to see something backed up by a reading compr
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by petermonsson 13y ago
Assuming that the store sells it for no profit.
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by petermonsson 13y ago
The choice of BIST over scan/ATPG makes this attack theoretically possible on Ivy Bridge. If Intel had used scan/ATPG then this attack could not have worked even in theory. Unfortunately, I don't have the insight to understan
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by petermonsson 13y ago
Does your current hospital show you these statistics?
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by petermonsson 13y ago
They do. They have a fund.
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by petermonsson 13y ago
I'm going to make a wild guess that the C6/C7 states are intended to be used in notebooks and other battery powered devices. For desktops the rest of the system will easily loose 5W somewhere else.
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by petermonsson 14y ago
As long as the Qualcomm application processors don't support hardware based VP8 decoding, Nokia probably won't care. The day that mainstream application processor vendors support hardware based VP8 decoding, this will change.
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by petermonsson 14y ago
How small is really, really small? Something that is small in a x86 sense is not at all small in an embedded world. If you could elaborate a bit on the performance requirements for the application I'd be really happy. I am curious how it co
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by petermonsson 14y ago
Yes: Teardowns from Isuppli often include a BoM: Lumia 900 + Galaxy S2: http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/Nokia-900-Carrie...
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by petermonsson 14y ago
The only DRAM price fixing scandal that I know of is the one from 1998 to 2002 which gave the involved parties litigation on their backs up until 2010. If you know of any others, please let me know. Google did not turn up anything else. Any

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