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You can learn about the origin of the 555 timer from its creator in his free book here: http://www.designinganalogchips.com/ Fun fact: his original concept needed 9 pins and theref…

It's not that there is zero applicable knowledge transfer, but there are definitely some fundamental differences between digital components and analog power devices, in particular.…

That's what all those citations are for.

He was saying that the III of C major is the V of A minor, and so if you are planning to play in A minor using a set of chords pulled from C major, you may want to add a III alongs…

The skills needed to create a chip and the skills needed to create chip design software are fundamentally different. Of all the engineers I've met who work on the physical implemen…

Mario Kart on Wii was released in 2008, when the oldest of Gen-Z would have been 11 years old. I'm pretty sure that's too young to be setting design trends.

I have no idea if there are systems on a submarine that might experience extreme temperatures. But for the hull, since it is constantly surrounded by liquid water, I would expect t…

This may not be the level of detail you are looking for, but I found this short tutorial to be effective at explaining the basics: https://learningsynths.ableton.com/ Ultimately, I…

Maybe I can try to explain the parent comment's point a different way. When saying that rust works on types and not on arbitrary specifications, I think he is saying that rust is m…

In the original naming scheme, 2nm would be the length of the transistor gate, which is the smallest feature on the device, not a dimension of the whole transistor. It's not meanin…

Exactly this. It may be useful for OP to consider what the hypothetical opposite of significant digits would be: insignificant digits, ie. digits that tell you nothing. A leading z…

Conceptually HDL is actually very similar to those cases, but with an important difference: simulated time. In an HDL simulator, the simulator starts executing by running code desi…

Yes. A typical SoC is assembled using thousands of lines of TCL to drive the various EDA tools that are involved in the design process.

A typical way to handle this in a functional language would be to create a datatype with a name like "PositiveInt", which just contains an Int inside it. However, in a language lik…

"Is there any evidence that tweets have meaning? I could easily imagine a world where posters fool themselves into thinking the words they wrote contained their intentions, while r…

I'm not that guy, but here's my interpretation: tcl is used as the embedded scripting language in the vast majority of EDA tools. In some ways it performs this job quite well, with…

There are many effects that contribute to semiconductor aging. Thermal stress and diffusion, as you and the child comment suggested, are definitely part of it. There is also electr…

Following this logic, if a popular rust crate doesn't prioritize security, it can potentially change people's risk assessment of the rust ecosystem as a whole. So this maintainer's…

> You could (and perhaps should) take the opinion that one should care about security, but there is no obligation (legal, financial, or moral) that requires an open source maintain…

I'm pretty sure the effect you are discussing has to do with the uncertainty relationship inherent to the Fourier Transform [0]. This is very closely related to the Heisenberg unce…

If you click through to the datasheet, you can see the frequency response of each of the 5 probes. Each probe is capable of picking up signals down to low frequency, but they only …

To me, that appeared to simply be effective communication. Raising a potentially serious issue early rather than waiting until all options have been exhausted and giving the securi…

It seems the concern is that if a foreign power is suspicious that someone might be a spy, they can collect their DNA and run it against this database. If the spy's relatives are i…

FancyZones looks like a godsend for those with ultrawide monitors. Not being able to effectively divide up the space was always a drawback compared with just having two normal size…

What is the problem with companies offering sales?