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What board did you use?

If you're not already aware, there's Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/

Samsung has a 14nm fab in Austin and GF has a 12nm (?) fab in New York.

Any resource recommendations to learn this skill?

The Garmin Watches don't have DRAM for power reasons. The processor is a memory constrained microcontroller without a hardware memory management unit. Without the MMU you don't get…

Why can't I buy an American made toaster? This isn't a gotcha -- I actually tried a few weeks ago and all I found for my trouble was this website: https://buyingamericanblog.com/20…

A big reason seems to be the difficulty of financing manufacturing operations in America. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/financing-advance...

I've looked at the financials of hearing aid companies before. And the short answer is that the money is not going to the hearing aid company. Of the $5k you spent on your hearing …

The problem is that most consumers' revealed preference is for better performance rather than replaceability or device longevity (I know some people here will express a different p…

I can't speak to the CC26xx series specifically, but normally deeply embedded cores running a ROM stack like that have some additional SRAM which can be loaded at boot for firmware…

It's so amazing how electronics have progressed. a startup called Octavio Systemsn is now selling a single package that can run a Linux system. I wouldn't count it as running Linux…

OSH Park is very cheap and good for bare boards: https://oshpark.com/ If you want somebody to populate the boards for you, I love Macrofab: https://macrofab.com/

This video was very cool. Are there any IC's that can perform analog computing for neural networks on the market now? I'm picturing something like an FPGA but with a bunch of op am…

What are the advantages of analog computing for this application?

Advanced Circuits is not the cheapest American pcb manufacturer. OSH Park is much cheaper.

You're wrong http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/upshot/surprise-florida... Don't worry about the political climate too much though. Plenty of Californians are moving here, many i…

This is actually not true, here's a quote from the link that I posted. "Conservatives also appear to be more generous than liberals in nonfinancial ways. People in red states are c…

"Republicans are less empathetic towards their fellow citizens" Seriously? It's well established that conservatives/republicans donate more to charity. Here's Nicholas Kristoff's c…

Freescale's fabs in the U.S. are all very old (like early 1990's old). AFAIK they only manufacture analog and MEMS type stuff there. I think TSMC manufactures their MCU, MPU's, and…

Really cool app, and a shame Apple rejected it. Using a spoon was a very clever idea. Why did you choose to display weight in grams to 3 decimal points when the measurements are on…

So the university goes through this process with all semiconductor companies that are developing processors, just to be sure that they're not infringing?

I'm curious how the university could discover that Apple was using its patent. The internal characteristics of the processor must be secret, right? Do they examine die photos and r…