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For DSSS demod, my guess is a 20 tap match filter designed from a resampled RRC filtered barker sequence. Haven’t looked at the VHDL, but that’s how I’d do it.

No one who really knows can say due to NDAs. We just know rough order of magnitude price. I can see $30 million for 5nm. With material costs approaching $20 to $30 a chip for mobil…

Paying for the masks is the big upfront cost - into the $5 to $10s of millions depending on the process node.

Due to the frequency division/time division duplexing nature of 3GPP protocols, a mesh network is very challenging and non-trival. The 5G standardization has some study items on mu…

Knowing people in both the legal and software world, law is a tough profession with old world business expectations. Almost everything is “last minute” due to either court deadline…

The pointer variable does not contain the type - it only stores the address. Sizeof will return whatever the machine address width is. The type is implicitly stored as the pointers…

As far as I know, pregnancy suppresses the immune response in order to keep the body from attacking the baby itself. That’s why doctors recommend pregnant women not to eat under co…

Not at a FAANG company but I will ask stuff that might show up as “easy” on leet code. Examples: run length encoding problem or a bit extracting/setting question. I want to see if …

I’m sure Apple’s government relations attorney was involved in some way and helped keep the project siloed. There was likely some contract, but is buried now.

Aloha and slotted aloha are still fundamental to most wireless communication networks. Most prevalent is today’s cellular networks. An aloha like algorithm is used by your phone to…

It seems that they outsourced almost everything to different companies rather than taking expertise in house. SpaceX seems to be doing everything themselves. Amazon seems to be doi…

The last 10 years of life gets incredible expensive unless you children who want to be full time caregivers... $30K per year + social security likely will not cut it. $30K today wi…

Even without ARM, I can see them using AMBA or AXI for the bus because there is so much existing IP out there built to that interface.

Copper mountain has some decent VNAs given the price point.

Too lazy to break out the stats, but a fair comparison would be international undergrad and grad as opposed to the aggregate. Harvard is actually a large graduate school that happe…

In the cited statistics, they may be conflating energy production/refining with consumption. In Europe, the Benelux region has much higher consumption then their neighbors. A bit s…