Re: tiebreaker

Jun 27, 2020 2 Replies


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>>>>> >onsdag den 24. juni 2020 kl. 20.08.29 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
>>>>> >> We have an ST ARM trying to talk to a Xininx FPGA with a parallel bus
>>>>> >> memory interface. It doesn't work. The software person suspects an
>>>>> >> FPGA bug, and vice versa. I'm going to scope things and see.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> And no matter how many test points you design into a board, they are
>>>>> >> seldom the right ones.
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>>>>> It's fixed. The fpga lady is too young to know that \WE is always
>>>>> active low.
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>>>>> Lotta soldering to make people THINK.
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>>>>> --
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>>>>> John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
>>>>> picosecond timing precision measurement
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>>>>> jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
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>>>>Murphy's Law (?) If anything can be inverted. it will be.
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>>>>Interesting way to have test points... but quick recovery.
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>>>I had one engineer who couldn't tell left from right. He also couldn't
>>>tell 1 from 0.
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>>We had one young woman in production years ago that could not read an
>>analog clock.
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>>I temporarily would ask would-be job candidates to show me what
>>counter-clockwise direction was to see if they knew what that meant.
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>>Most people do know that of course but you can't be too careful these
>>days.
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>Google can't read analog clock

Lots of great hits ! I like the Jimmy Kimmel street interview with kids.

There's a wonderful Youtube where a guy walks around the MIT campus with a battery, a light bulb, and a piece of wire, asking students if they can make it light up. One guy could.

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc Science teaches us to doubt. Claude Bernard

I like this this contraption.

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