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Good catch on baud vs bps:
https://www.electronicdesign.c...

Crimminy, these young'uns.

I sure hope creimy was still on 110 baud because this would limit the amount of spam links he could spread in a day.

Crash Dummy Redux == CDR == Christopher Dale Reimer == creimer.
Proof: They all post the same sock puppets karma whoring and/or bragging stories:
Crash Dummy Redux:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
The Original CDR:
https://ask.slashdot.org/comme...

Last year, I proved to creimer that I was running a click bot to inflate the views on his stupid channel and he admitted it! He has even written about it on twitter, go check and you will see.

I specifically targeted music videos to make him believe that he had just discovered a new Klondike! It was very funny to watch him come on Slashdot bragging about how much his new music videos were successful before I finally told him about the click bot!

Then, when the party was over, I proved to him that I was the one inflating his views, I told him in advance that I would stop the views on one specific video which I did and he confirmed that fact on twitter.

Well, he just posted a imaginary story here where he pretends that pedophiles were looking at his kid music video. Maybe he figures that pedophiles are better click bait material. My bot isn't a pedophile! No pedophiles looked at his video at all!

See his post here:
https://medium.com/@cdreimerth...

He is such a liar and a thief! He will say or do anything just to get 1 click on his stupid videos which have amazon affiliate links attached to them all over the place!

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There are already AI processors that are many times faster than a traditional microprocessor.

Google rattles the tech world with a new AI chip for all

and

Intel’s AI Chip Available in a USB Stick

Here, literally, is the big picture

Or working around /.'s shitty lameness filter, some ASCII art:

| Application. . |
| DLLs . . . . . | | Application. |
| Operating Sys. | | DLLs . . . . |
| Virtual Machine| | Container . .|
| Operating Sys .| | Operating Sys|

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Slashdot's lameness filter is lame. When the fuck are tables and markdown going to be supported???

How about this and this then?

Ah, I didn't look that closely to see that. On the other hand, I still wouldn't consider them 'astoundingly efficient' as the headline claims. This article discusses a design for a 97.09% efficient inverter. (I admit at this point I'm beginning to be argumentative, but I still think the headline should have been astoundingly dense inverters, though my theory is that slashdot injects in intentional errors to drive comments and traffics from those who like to nitpick submissions).

I disagree that you're being argumentive. While efficiency can mean a lot of things, it's a dead lock given that in a story about electric inverters, that efficiency would mean conversion efficiency.

Because the "efficiency" they were actually referring to was efficiency in th enature of efficiency apartments.

I certainly don't want to disparage what they did, because it was very impressive. This was more an issue with the person who wrote the original article.

Ah, I didn't look that closely to see that. On the other hand, I still wouldn't consider them 'astoundingly efficient' as the headline claims. This article discusses a design for a 97.09% efficient inverter. (I admit at this point I'm beginning to be argumentative, but I still think the headline should have been astoundingly dense inverters, though my theory is that slashdot injects in intentional errors to drive comments and traffics from those who like to nitpick submissions).

http://electronicdesign.com/tr...

Battery evolution has been moving along at a fairly steady pace averaging around a 5-8% improvement in capacity per year. In addition, the longevity has been steadily increasing and charge times have been steadily decreasing and cost have been dropping fairly rapidly, much faster than predicted.

If you compare today's batteries used in cars compared to those a decade ago there is really no comparison. Today's batteries have much higher capacities, much longer life and at a much lower cost.

http://www.carbonbrief.org/blo...

Here's a chart from 2012. Tesla is selling their grid storage battery packs at around $250/KWh and with the gigafactory the prices will be further reduced. This is the price point where BEVs start to become price competitive with gasoline cars.

http://www.mckinsey.com/insigh...

Battery prices are already at or below where they were predicted to be in 2020 just a few years ago.

http://theenergycollective.com...

On average, battery energy doubles every ten years.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/2009...
http://electronicdesign.com/po...

Electrical noise. It's when the electronic signal picks up some crust. It's generally not audible, unless some circuitry happens to make it audible.

It's only been three years since Bob and Jim left us.

I exchanged a few emails with Bob Pease. He was a giant among analog engineers.

Don't forget Bob Widlar, another giant. Here's what BP said about BW: http://electronicdesign.com/analog/what-s-all-widlar-stuff-anyhow

Mathematical formulas you get: http://electronicdesign.com/energy/what-s-difference-between-watts-and-volt-amperes
Also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

You are missing the power factor and the difference between instantaneous current and voltage and RMS current and voltage.

GAAH! Why no edit function on /. ?

http://electronicdesign.com/components/leds-line-replace-residential-incandescent-bulbs

http://electronicdesign.com/digital-ics/tiny-transistors-giant-molecules-moore-s-law-crashes-laws-physics

Give this a read.

Moore's law extrapolations are hitting the limitations of physics.

As for shrinking transistors?
Pretty meaningless, silicon hit the limitations of the interconnects a while back.

Parasitic capacitance has been the brick wall that people can not get past.

Flash IS a type of RAM

Actually no. NAND Flash (the high-density type that smart phones use) is read sequentially from rows on die. It's not read randomly at all like DRAM or SRAM. You have to read a whole row of data to get the bit you want, like a disk-drive.

http://electronicdesign.com/site-files/electronicdesign.com/files/archive/electronicdesign.com/files/29/16383/figure_01.gif

Why can't a single core not be sped up when the others can't used? Intel already do that in their other processors based on workload and thermal envelope.

eg: 48 cores at 200MHz or 4 cores at 2GHz?

That's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, it looks like that technology currently only allows for about a 40% boost in speed per core (so from 200MHz to 280MHz, not 2GHz)

Now, I'm not sure if that's a hardware limitation or a thermal one: it may be that they *could* do a much wider variation in processor speeds if there was a good reason to do so. But again, overhead. Tracking projected thermal profiles (so as not to accidentally fry the customer's hand...or the device), monitoring and continually adjusting performance based on load for all of the cores will inevitably cut into the overall efficiency of the combined unit.

... ethernet is a LAN protocol, not WAN.

Not anymore.http://google.com/search?q=ethernet+wan

2 Feb 2006 – Undoubtedly, Ethernet has become the technology of choice for wide-area network (WAN) connectivity for both the enterprise and the carrier.

With UASP sufficient to provide a good disk interface, will new motherboards keep it simple and eliminate the SATA controller and ports? Will new internal hard drives simply have USB connectors?

According to Electronic Design,

Using a common command set reduces support and compatibility issues. SATA flash and hard drives support a subset of SCSI, which is why SAS controllers can easily handle SATA and SAS drives. This also makes support of these drives via UASP significantly easier. Likewise, it means standard device drivers for operating systems like Windows and Linux work with all devices.

So, a kernel could have a single SAS driver that supports all SAS, SATA, and USB block devices. This could be a marvelous convergence.

C++11 has a lot of nice features but it many ways it is playing catch up to Ada (see C++11 and Ada 2012 - renaissance of native languages? ). Too many view Ada as the "military programming language" but as safety and security become better understood Ada stands out.

If you haven't looked at Ada or looked at it a while ago I would recommend trying one of the latest. You can get download GNAT Ada for free.

I had to go to my shelf to be sure, but yes...one of my favorite electronics books, Troubleshooting Analog Circuits, was penned by the talented Bob Pease. I always enjoyed the clever writing style and humor that came across in that wonderfully detailed book. I received it for a review many years ago, and after reading it decided it earned a place in my permanent library.

It is unfortunate that only now have I found his regular column ( http://electronicdesign.com/author/904/BobPease.aspx ). I will enjoy reading through the rest of them, but I will be quite sad to know that he is no longer around to write any more.

He seems like someone who would have been great to know in real life. Godspeed, Robert Pease.

Bob Pease and Jim Williams (who also died recently) were legends in analog electronics.
Bob was still an active contributor to many columns.
His last is here http://electronicdesign.com/article/analog-and-mixed-signal/What-s-All-This-Solo-Hiking-Stuff-Anyhow-.aspx

RIP Bob

One of the craziest related fads I've heard of is "integrating" these "transceivers". As if anyone would want something as bleeding edge as "built-in" bluetooth capability... psshhhaw!
STOP
I think those crazy radio-wave-transceiver early-adopters will find themselves only the object of more ridicule once this little fad burns out.
STOP

"DSP Or A GPP? You Decide" , http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=7722 --> "Solutions that mix a GPP and a DSP in one chip have many advantages, but they significantly increase the complexity of the underlying system."

"Lost cost General Purpose Process vs low cost DSP" , http://www.bdti.com/articles/evolution/sld024.htm , GPP gets score 7 vs DSP gets score of 10.

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FYI, BDTI is a company that specializes in designing benchmarks for GPP and DSP chips. Their benchmarks are widely used around the world when designers need to compare the power usage, performance, and memory usage of chips.

If you're interested in performance, forget the over-hyped speaker wires. Buy heavy gauge zip cord at the local big-box store. Use the money you save to buy better speakers. From an engineering aspect, it makes no sense to spend large amounts of money for a minor improvement of something which has trivial impact on system performance (speaker wires). It makes good sense to spend more to improve the weakest link in the system (speakers, the last remaining electro-mechanical analog component under your control). Randi and Bob Pease have also weighed in on "high end" audio cables.