• MacFrog (unregistered)

    I'd be the frist to name a register in one of our IP cores like that...

  • klinsten1 (github)

    our CIO complained a few years back that everything we produced was rubbish...(that was not the most pleasant meeting, you can imagine)... the word he kept using was "brol", which means rubbish in our dialect...
    So when a few months later they wanted to replace our old legacy system with something more shiny, they were looking for a name... as we're in the tourist business, i suggested "Booking and Reservation OnLine", which would make a great acronym.... but my entry was not withheld, without a reason given

  • (nodebb)

    There's nothing more fun than the tiny little "pop" of a chip dying when you throw 5V power onto a pin that's actually ground.

    Sure there is. Try putting +24V into an output of an 8255 parallel I/O chip. Not only does the chip die, but it makes an actual crack sound (louder than just a "pop", not loud enough to merit "bang") and blows a hole in the chip's package. And lets the magic smoke out, both literally (a little curl of smoke was seen) and metaphorically (the chip didn't work any more).

  • (nodebb)

    when you're working in an embedded space, "cheapest" is frequently the main criteria for picking components, and "cheapest" means "worst documented".

    Be careful with that word "embedded", because it covers a multitude of sins, ranging from the sublime (e.g. TI Sensor Signal Processor - the model I worked on had 576 bits of addressable memory) to the ridiculous (e.g. a system with two 12-core Intel CPUs).

  • Greg (unregistered) in reply to klinsten1

    Are you by any chance from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium?

  • (author) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    Somehow, at my current job, it's evolved to include strapping a massive PC with a 5080 GPU to a PLC. If things go well, I'll actually get back into real embedded and replace the PLC with a collection of smaller (and cheaper) MCUs.

  • Twither (unregistered)

    "cheapest" is frequently the main criteria for picking components, and "cheapest" means "worst documented"

    Fortunately, it can also mean highest volume production, which is often "best documented".

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