Basically it let you probe a working integrated circuit in the same way that you'd use an oscilloscope to probe a printed circuit board. One of it's immediate predecessor was credit with shortening the process of debigging the 68000 by about three months.
AS I mentioned above, your reading skills aren't up to much. My last job in the Netherlands ran out in May 2003, when I was 60. I haven't been able to get work since then - for six years now.
You've used it extensively, because you've not been aware of anything better. That you don't see this as defect in your expertise says it all.
Nice try. I can see how you might see my "inability" to see the 555 as a nearly universal cure-all as an "inferiority" but it is the same kind of "inferiority" as my persistent failure to master sign language.
That you don't seem to have found many alternatives to the 555 does give a pretty obvious clue to your capacities in this area. You enthusiasm for advancing defective arguments saves me from having to "spew invective" - I just have to encourage you to respond and leave you to manage the task of portraying youself as an idiot.
Even the humblest and most self-effacing senior engineer would steer clear of acquiring a subordinate who tried to solve every problem with a 555.
Far from it, but my own supervisors did keep hammering at the point that my job was supervising my subordinates, not doing their jobs for them. Mostly I could get by by steering them away from bad solutions, by - for example - getting them to tolerance over-simplified versions of their approach early on, which is the sort of trick that could often wean them off their first idea without doing too much damage to their self-esteem.
Wrong again, Slowman. You're unemployable because no one will hire
*you*. It has nothing to do with me, though you're wrong here too. FPGAs are just a small, though quite interesting, part of my experience. IOW, add in your AGW religion and you're competing with DimBulb for the AlwaysWrong title.
You always revert to the past and have excuses for your current failings.
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It\'s not a defect in my expertise because it simply isn\'t true, as I\'ve
pointed out often enough for someone with a reasonable attention span to
grasp.
You, however, with your belief that if you repeat a lie often enough
it\'ll magically turn into the truth, aren\'t that someone.
Hasn't worked in 18 years? Wow. Recently Bill mentioned that his PdD was in Physical Chemistry. More than a small distance from electrical engineering. Don't get me wrong, but i have spent a year between jobs. On the other hand i can sass the hell out of management and keep my job, because i do it well. Can Bill make that statement?
Horowitz has the PhD, Hill (AFAICT) has no degrees, not that matters much, electronics design is more art than science. ...Jim Thompson
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| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus |
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| Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
You can never be too prepared for the REPRESSION!
Well, my point is that Bill could be entirely useful doing electronics design even if his PhD is in physical chemistry, that's all.
Hard to know, though... if I were advising Bill I'd suggest he start doing some electronics again, put up a web site like Jim's -- it's a great learning resource and advertises that you might just know more than the average bear, and these days you can do so much for cheap or free with, e.g., LTSpice, microcontrollers, etc.--, and I'd be willing to bet that eventually he could get some contract work.
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