This title implies that the designer also has knowledge of analog systems. Fine, you can design logic/FPGA's. Digital systems are possible to learn by reading a book or two; Analog/mixed-signals design requires intensive schooling
Are you an analog designer by any chance? If so, my company is looking for analog designers in orange county, California. Email me at crgrace@ieee.org
I think you are the first person i have ever seen to say something complimentary about hp-ux
Actually, I used it for over ten years both at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at the Solid-State Circuits Research Laboratory at UC Davis. HP-UX is an amazing platform and as close to bulletproof as I've ever seen. One of our main servers at UC Davis was recently upgraded and it had an uptime of over 6 YEARS. Amazing. And I had an HP-UX workstation on my desk that never ever ever crashed the whole 6 years I was there, and was only rebooted after significant software upgrades. I think the other OSes out there have a thing or two to learn from HP-UX.
The economy is growing, meaning more money comes in. People were saying these things and freaking out just like this when Reagan passed his tax cuts and less than ten years later the debt was gone, grown out of by the huge economic boom they inspired.
Actually the debt isn't gone from the Reagan years. But the deficits are. Think of debt as the integral over time of the deficit. We would need a long long time of surpluses to erase the debt we started to take on in the 80s (and are continuing to take on).
I design analog modems for a living and 56k modems transmit 16 bits per baud. That's a lot more than one bit after another. Analog modems actually transmit more bits per baud than a lot of DSL systems. They just have much less bandwidth.
And why is it always called 'Big' Tobacco anyway? No-one ever calls Kraft Big Pasta, or McDonald's, Burger King & Wendys Big Burgers
The irony here of course is that Kraft is owned by RJ Renyolds... er Altria. The problem with "Big Tobacco" is the lies and complete disregard for human life that is rampant in the industry.
Well, for one thing you can't just swap diamond for silicon and things will speed up. An incredible amount of work has been done to develop tools for simulation and manufacturing silicon and diamond is different. Since diamond isn't a semiconductor I don't know where the transistors would come from exactly... I guessing the diamond is just a substrate.
Also, I don't believe the price for one second. Silicon is an amazingly easy material to work with and silicon wafers are much more expensive than $5.
I just don't buy what they're saying in the article.
I still recall reading the article in Wired magazine a few months back. A company approached them with an offer to provide them perfect diamond wafers (produced at less then $5/wafer) and Intel did not take the offer because they have not gotten their full investment back on the silicon. So given that they refused to have an easy method of increasing their processor spead by a very big number, it is not surprising that they still haven't gotten 64 bit over AMD... Shame, Intel used to be the best. -A
As someone working in the semiconductor industry... let me give you my professional opinion.... *coughBULLSHITcough*
Home game consoles have never really be backward compatible. PS2 is the first real back-ward compatible that I know of (though someone will end up telling me differently)
Yep, the Atari 7800 was backward compatible to the 2600. That's one of the main reasons why I bought one, to play the piles of 2600 games I had.
Re:Ouch (Score:1) by Erwos (553607) on Thursday January 29, @09:48AM (#8125238) I suppose I should have written fourth generation, assuming it goes something along the lines of: 1. NES, SMS 2. SNES, Genesis, TG16 3. Playstation, N64, Dreamcast 4. PS2, X-Box, Gamecube
Then, if you were really worth all that money you think you're worth, you'd realize you should switch to one of the following professions:
Boat building Watch making Artist High-end Dog-house construction etc.
Am I the only one seeing opportunities?
Boat Building --- outsourced to China Watch Making --- outsourced to Taiwan Artist -- most artists are poor... expensive artwork is almost always the work of now-dead artists High-End Dog-Houses -- made in India McMegaMansions -- made by Americans at $12/hour
No, silicon is a semiconductor, which means that its valence and conduction bands are not overlapping (as in a metal) at room temperature. It's not an insulator because the bandgap (the electrical distance between the valence and conduction bands) is small (about 1.1 eV).
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apparently a different one from you:-) putting power on the top is very common these days - reducing IR drop at worst case switching all across the die means getting as much metal between the pads and gates in the middle is really important - people often reserve upper layers for power and gnd because we don't care as much about wire length (now days often limited by via length) and want to reserve the shorter via runs for signals. Sure cross talk is an issue - but your layout tools ought to be handling this for you
This is true, many design methodologies attempt to reserve certain layers for power. But... that is not what the original poster said. He said power plane, that is, one wire over the entire area of the chip. Not too smart. What is more likely to obscure silicon art is fill metal which is metal added to satisfy density requirements due to polishing requirements.
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You blathered: "some jerk-off designer"
Some of us have a sense of style when it comes to engineering and computers. You need a visit from the Fab5.
Now that was a hilarious comeback. Mod up please!
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those are from the days when chips had 1 or 2 layers of metal on them. These days it's more normal to put power and ground planes on the top hiding all the pretty stuff underneath
what planet are you from? No one uses power or ground planes on an IC. It would be complete and utter suicide! CROSSTALK BABY! The reason you don't see them anymore is that they are dangerous and some jerk-off designer putting a million dollar mask set at risk for a picture of dilbert just isn't worth it.
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you went to an excellent high school... you must not be american.
I had to go to the local college to learn calculus, because they didn't even offer it in my high school!
(which ,IMO, has blown out of proportion)
erm.... I should say so!
Chip designer?
This title implies that the designer also has knowledge of analog systems. Fine, you can design logic/FPGA's. Digital systems are possible to learn by reading a book or two; Analog/mixed-signals design requires intensive schooling
Are you an analog designer by any chance? If so, my company is looking for analog designers in orange county, California. Email me at crgrace@ieee.org
I think you are the first person i have ever seen to say something complimentary about hp-ux
Actually, I used it for over ten years both at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at the Solid-State Circuits Research Laboratory at UC Davis. HP-UX is an amazing platform and as close to bulletproof as I've ever seen. One of our main servers at UC Davis was recently upgraded and it had an uptime of over 6 YEARS. Amazing. And I had an HP-UX workstation on my desk that never ever ever crashed the whole 6 years I was there, and was only rebooted after significant software upgrades. I think the other OSes out there have a thing or two to learn from HP-UX.
Reversing the polarity.
The economy is growing, meaning more money comes in. People were saying these things and freaking out just like this when Reagan passed his tax cuts and less than ten years later the debt was gone, grown out of by the huge economic boom they inspired.
Actually the debt isn't gone from the Reagan years. But the deficits are. Think of debt as the integral over time of the deficit. We would need a long long time of surpluses to erase the debt we started to take on in the 80s (and are continuing to take on).
I design analog modems for a living and 56k modems transmit 16 bits per baud. That's a lot more than one bit after another. Analog modems actually transmit more bits per baud than a lot of DSL systems. They just have much less bandwidth.
where did that dialogue come from? I heard it in an intro to a Nerf Herder song, but I dont know where it came from.
you should get a +1 funny just for your sig.
Which, as people have started to mention, are New York, Miami, and Oakland (not LA).
San Andreas is not Oakland. One look at the map that comes with GTA and its obvious that it is San Francisco (across the Bay Bridge from Oakland).
Ah, so the names probably go like:
San Andreas==Los Angeles
Actually San Andreas==San Francisco.
It's laid out like San Francisco and many of the neighborhoods are plays on San Francisco neighborhoods.
And why is it always called 'Big' Tobacco anyway? No-one ever calls Kraft Big Pasta, or McDonald's, Burger King & Wendys Big Burgers
The irony here of course is that Kraft is owned by RJ Renyolds... er Altria. The problem with "Big Tobacco" is the lies and complete disregard for human life that is rampant in the industry.
Well, for one thing you can't just swap diamond for silicon and things will speed up. An incredible amount of work has been done to develop tools for simulation and manufacturing silicon and diamond is different. Since diamond isn't a semiconductor I don't know where the transistors would come from exactly... I guessing the diamond is just a substrate.
Also, I don't believe the price for one second. Silicon is an amazingly easy material to work with and silicon wafers are much more expensive than $5.
I just don't buy what they're saying in the article.
I still recall reading the article in Wired magazine a few months back. A company approached them with an offer to provide them perfect diamond wafers (produced at less then $5/wafer) and Intel did not take the offer because they have not gotten their full investment back on the silicon. So given that they refused to have an easy method of increasing their processor spead by a very big number, it is not surprising that they still haven't gotten 64 bit over AMD... Shame, Intel used to be the best. -A
As someone working in the semiconductor industry... let me give you my professional opinion.... *coughBULLSHITcough*
Home game consoles have never really be backward compatible. PS2 is the first real back-ward compatible that I know of (though someone will end up telling me differently)
Yep, the Atari 7800 was backward compatible to the 2600. That's one of the main reasons why I bought one, to play the piles of 2600 games I had.
Re:Ouch (Score:1)
by Erwos (553607) on Thursday January 29, @09:48AM (#8125238)
I suppose I should have written fourth generation, assuming it goes something along the lines of:
1. NES, SMS
2. SNES, Genesis, TG16
3. Playstation, N64, Dreamcast
4. PS2, X-Box, Gamecube
Should be:
1. Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey, Matell Intellivison
2. Atari 5200, Colecovision
3. NES, SMS, Atari 7800
4. SNES, Genesis, TG16, NeoGeo
5. Playstation, N64, Dreamcast, 3D0, Saturn
6. PS2, X-Box, Gamecube
This only includes non-hardwired systems.
that's actually very good advice.... depressing.... but good advice. Thank you.
Then, if you were really worth all that money you think you're worth, you'd realize you should switch to one of the following professions:
Boat building
Watch making
Artist
High-end Dog-house construction
etc.
Am I the only one seeing opportunities?
Boat Building --- outsourced to China
Watch Making --- outsourced to Taiwan
Artist -- most artists are poor... expensive artwork is almost always the work of now-dead artists
High-End Dog-Houses -- made in India
McMegaMansions -- made by Americans at $12/hour
where are the opportunities?
This has always been my favorite:
An analog and a digital engineer are working late into the lab. A beautiful woman appears at the door and speaks:
"Every second I will reduce the distance between us by one half".
"Darn!", says the digital engineer, "she'll never get here!"
The analog engineer replies "But she'll get close enough!"
I actually read the article!!!!!
All my questions were answered so I have nothing to say.
No, silicon is a semiconductor, which means that its valence and conduction bands are not overlapping (as in a metal) at room temperature. It's not an insulator because the bandgap (the electrical distance between the valence and conduction bands) is small (about 1.1 eV).
apparently a different one from you :-) putting power on the top is very common these days - reducing IR drop at worst case switching all across the die means getting as much metal between the pads and gates in the middle is really important - people often reserve upper layers for power and gnd because we don't care as much about wire length (now days often limited by via length) and want to reserve the shorter via runs for signals. Sure cross talk is an issue - but your layout tools ought to be handling this for you
This is true, many design methodologies attempt to reserve certain layers for power. But... that is not what the original poster said. He said power plane, that is, one wire over the entire area of the chip. Not too smart. What is more likely to obscure silicon art is fill metal which is metal added to satisfy density requirements due to polishing requirements.
You blathered: "some jerk-off designer"
Some of us have a sense of style when it comes to engineering and computers. You need a visit from the Fab5.
Now that was a hilarious comeback. Mod up please!
those are from the days when chips had 1 or 2 layers of metal on them. These days it's more normal to put power and ground planes on the top hiding all the pretty stuff underneath
what planet are you from? No one uses power or ground planes on an IC. It would be complete and utter suicide! CROSSTALK BABY! The reason you don't see them anymore is that they are dangerous and some jerk-off designer putting a million dollar mask set at risk for a picture of dilbert just isn't worth it.
Here here!