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Got my master's in it, before ending up in sensors then robotics instead. And a continued interest, I guess. Here are some free relevant courses. You might have to go back and take the pre-reqs. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Thank you for this! I have been looking for IC design MOOCs for awhile.
That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you'll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create…
Are there any CPUs out there with FPGAs tacked on that are available to the hobbyists/gamer/build your own PC crowd?
That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you'll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create…
I don't think anyone uses U/LVT transistors in low geometries, the leakage would be a nightmare .
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Got my master's in it, before ending up in sensors then robotics instead. And a continued interest, I guess. Here are some free relevant courses. You might have to go back and take the pre-reqs. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
How does one get into robotics? I have not looked much but none of my local schools seem to have "robotics". I tinker with electronics and make some remote controlled robots for fun (internet controlled, live video with multi user input, sort of crowd controlled). I am now trying to self teach myself about kalman filters and control theory and want to build more autonomous robots. But any info on getting into robotic…
That was a bit misleading in some ways. First, in pipelining you'll typically measure how long a pipeline steps in FO4s, which is to say the delay required for one transistor to drive 4 other transistors of the same width. Intel will typically design its pipeline stages to have 16 FO4s of delay. IBM is more aggressive and will try to work it down to 10. But of those 10, 2 are there for the latches you added to create…
I don't think anyone uses U/LVT transistors in low geometries, the leakage would be a nightmare .
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For once there is no consensus how to do parallelism an concurrency in Rust since none of the library are matures.
Exactly! Rust doesn't solve any parallelism problems. It's no better than established languages like C# or F#, and probably worse.
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Try it out and write the critique, then. The posts are positive because Rust is genuinely achieving rapid progress and stability... but certainly not without flaws. I've experienced plenty of frustration, albeit outweighed by the massive benefits for my use case. And there are whole problem domains to which it's just not suited. I see these mentioned pretty frequently.
For once there is no consensus how to do parallelism an concurrency in Rust since none of the library are matures.
Rayon, the Rust library getting most of the discussion in this thread, is now 1.0: https://github.com/rayon-rs/rayon/blob/master/RELEASES.md .
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> but CPU cores are relatively cheap compared to engineer salaries I often experienced that this backfired. Single machines are still constrained in their power and while it's easy to spin up additional VMs in the cloud, scaling a program properly to run on dozens of machines takes a lot of work. It can be faster to develop a program that is really efficient and can solve the problem on one machine than to develop fa…
I kinda regret adding the note about performance, because switching to a lower level language used to yield orders of magnitude more performance, but optimizers have evolved and today there's not much difference. Sometimes the higher level language will be even faster because of optimizations. And bad performance is often not to blame on the language, instead blame the programmer or more likely the business people as…
used to yield orders of magnitude more performance, but optimizers have evolved and today there's not much difference.
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It seems like every thread here, not matter what the topic, brings out the Rust astroturfers.
As someone who frequently posts about my personally-excellent experiences with Rust, what makes you suspect it's astroturf rather than just turf? You think Mozilla is paying people to post about Rust using puppet accounts? C'mon.
(The person you're replying to is using the transparent internet argument tactic of trying to cast doubt upon genuine enthusiasm by implying some vague sinister motive, conveniently without bothering to articulate what that motive might even possibly be. Let's all recognize bad-faith arguments, downvote, and move along.)