"4-tier construction on the circuit section used to convert analog video signals to digital signals"...
Really, posting marketing non-information on Slashdot? Perhaps it's a parallel/pipelined A/D, judging form the application, performance and use of "tier". In any case, A/D converters have common specs, and if this one is special those specs would be of interest. Nerds don't have to be protected from "fancy camera talk".
The only reason this works as well as it does (poorly - 10% to 28% according to the post) is that humans are hard-wired to find faces among images. We'll accept anything with two small ovals on the same line with another shape roughly in the middle, below. Nose optional. Try the equivalent with random images or music, and I'll bet the success rate would drop to nil.
At a research universities, the overhead charged by the university on engineering research grants goes into a general fund that supports the other disciplines, directly or indirectly. The flow of cash is from engineering to the other programs, not vice versa. The university engineering school often also must pay the university liberal arts college based on enrollment of engineering undergrads in required courses taught in the liberal arts college (such as some basic math and science courses). The suggested tuition differential, if justified on the basis of costs to the various departments, would have to take into account these facts of university finance. It's not nearly as simple as suggested.
Thanks Vario ! I tried LTSpice on all three platforms (using stock WINE on Ubuntu and Crossover on Mac) and it works beautifully. In fact, it is easier to get up and running than OrCad in some ways, it has no net limits, and even does things OrCad can't (like print a schematic directly). The plotting tool accepts mathematical functions of time, node voltages, etc, so ideal and real results can be plotted simultaneously, just like OrCad. I will hand this over to a student for further testing, but from what I have seen, your suggestion has solved my problem.
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*Remuneration*. It doesn't matter if Google was numbered again.
"4-tier construction on the circuit section used to convert analog video signals to digital signals" ...
Really, posting marketing non-information on Slashdot? Perhaps it's a parallel/pipelined A/D, judging form the application, performance and use of "tier". In any case, A/D converters have common specs, and if this one is special those specs would be of interest. Nerds don't have to be protected from "fancy camera talk".
The only reason this works as well as it does (poorly - 10% to 28% according to the post) is that humans are hard-wired to find faces among images. We'll accept anything with two small ovals on the same line with another shape roughly in the middle, below. Nose optional. Try the equivalent with random images or music, and I'll bet the success rate would drop to nil.
At a research universities, the overhead charged by the university on engineering research grants goes into a general fund that supports the other disciplines, directly or indirectly. The flow of cash is from engineering to the other programs, not vice versa. The university engineering school often also must pay the university liberal arts college based on enrollment of engineering undergrads in required courses taught in the liberal arts college (such as some basic math and science courses). The suggested tuition differential, if justified on the basis of costs to the various departments, would have to take into account these facts of university finance. It's not nearly as simple as suggested.
... for a product that usually sells for many hundreds of dollars, they deserve what they get.
Thanks Vario ! I tried LTSpice on all three platforms (using stock WINE on Ubuntu and Crossover on Mac) and it works beautifully. In fact, it is easier to get up and running than OrCad in some ways, it has no net limits, and even does things OrCad can't (like print a schematic directly). The plotting tool accepts mathematical functions of time, node voltages, etc, so ideal and real results can be plotted simultaneously, just like OrCad. I will hand this over to a student for further testing, but from what I have seen, your suggestion has solved my problem.