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One Person’s Kludge is Another’s Solution
Darcy L. Watkins – September 15, 2024 In engineering, we strive for commoditization of our products, software, etc. We like everything to be orthogonal, configurable and we hate application specific hacks and kludges to our architecturally pure baby. The sales and support people, on the other hand, love it when we come up with “solutions” …
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Grass Roots Versus Feudal Technologies
Image by Luca from Pixabay There seems to be two natures to technology. In some cases, it is accessible to startups and inspires innovation. In other cases, you can’t even get your foot in the door without an initial outlay of huge amounts of investment. I refer to the former as “grass roots” and the …
Illogical Logic
There have been times when digital logic doesn’t behave logically. In such cases, you must consider that logic blocks are an abstract model implemented using electrical, substrate physics and even electromagnetic physics processes. This is where you run into hardware errors, even chip errata. Below are a few examples I ran into: And I could …