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I would never have guessed this configuration was so rare. D-sub connectors seem to have more active use in aerospace and defense that you might expect (Until I started working pro…

yes sorry, pitch is smaller density is higher

The important distinction is between on-silicon interconnects and off-silicon. On silicon, the interconnect density is much higher so it's feasible to get high bandwidth by having …

The "PIC32" family from microchip is also MIPS based

No problem! You are not the first person I've heard express the impression that the MSP430 is slipping into irrelevance, and while I agree the places it shines may be getting squee…

I think the platform is very much still alive and kicking. It is still the only uP platform I am aware of which is available with embedded FRAM which is low power, non volatile, ex…

It's up to hobbyists what's worth it to them, but the power consumption of the ESP 8266/32 is not _really_ comparable to the '430. "Deep sleep" mode on the ESP seems to be about 20…

Don't know if their copy editors read these, but "Gallium Nitrate" is surely a typo for "Gallium Nitride" (GaN). GaN is a wide bandgap semiconductor, Gallium Nitrate is apparently …

It's because the speed of sound (in any material) is much slower than the speed of light (even in high dk materials). To make a selective and low loss filter you want to use resona…

Just a hint - extra attributes in the `mkShell` appear as environment variables in the built shell. So instead of a `shellHook` for this you can just have an attribute `ERL_LIBS=""…

Also see meson's[0] built in package management called wrap-db[1] [0] https://mesonbuild.com/ [1] https://wrapdb.mesonbuild.com/

Down to DC? That should be a surprise, because it's certainly not true! Faraday's law of induction only applies to varying fields, which means AC or physical movement. Remember, it…

What is "OBD-C"? Did the appropriate the USB-C connector for an OBD connection for some reason?

No, the power consumed is equal. The capacitance doesn't stop charging at time tao as you imply, it continues to charge until it reaches the final driving voltage, which is why int…

No, the power consumed is equal. The capacitance doesn't stop charging at time tao as you imply, it continues to charge until it reaches the final driving voltage, which is why int…

Yes, but I don't think your refuted my point. 16 bits (96dB SNR) is pretty good for an 18MHz signal processing system. Comparing it to a 18MHz 8bit AVR with a 10bit, 15ksps ADC is …

Sure, but analog processing happens continuously and at an SNR that is equivalent to a very high bit depth. If you had an analog processing chain with 18MHz of BW (which granted yo…

The Waytools text blade sounds somewhat similar to what you're describing: https://waytools.com/

I love this article, but I just can't help but pick at this nit I have with the "charging the capacitors" part. I'm not intimately familiar with Ethernet specifically, but I am an …

Nice. Do you have any guides you wrote or used that you can recommend? I'm looking at getting SmartOS set up at home as well, but I know I've got a lot to learn.

Maybe even hotter than inside, since the epoxy reaction is exothermic as it cures.

Another cool thing, that was counter intuitive to me is that more than just rejecting multipath, spread spectrum can actually make use of multipath to improve the link (although I …

Also, the input stage is where noise figure is critical. Larger transistors are lower noise figure.