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Wed, 15 Feb 2006 This week I've called two meetings which have turned into the electrical engineering equivalent of a barroom brawl. This is a good thing—in the first one, we made two decisions critical to the way that we will proceed towards the tape-out of the two chips I'm currently working on, and in the second we discovered and subsequently fixed what would have been a show-stopping error in a modification we only had to make because somewhere between customer and marketing we were never told that we had to support a mode of operation we'd never before seen (in particular, ringing the telephone with both a positive and negative battery as opposed to just one big negative one, the historically preferred approach because (a) telephones are fully differential systems anyway, so you can get positive and negative tip-to-ring voltages even with only one battery, and (b) with a negative battery you don't get electrochemical corrosion). Also, that was quite a friggin sentence. [ permalink | 0 comments (add one you lazy bastard!) ] writebacks (add one you lazy bastard!)post a comment: |
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