decoration decoration
Stories

GROKLAW
When you want to know more...
decoration
For layout only
Home
Archives
Site Map
Search
About Groklaw
Awards
Legal Research
Timelines
ApplevSamsung
ApplevSamsung p.2
ArchiveExplorer
Autozone
Bilski
Cases
Cast: Lawyers
Comes v. MS
Contracts/Documents
Courts
DRM
Gordon v MS
GPL
Grokdoc
HTML How To
IPI v RH
IV v. Google
Legal Docs
Lodsys
MS Litigations
MSvB&N
News Picks
Novell v. MS
Novell-MS Deal
ODF/OOXML
OOXML Appeals
OraclevGoogle
Patents
ProjectMonterey
Psystar
Quote Database
Red Hat v SCO
Salus Book
SCEA v Hotz
SCO Appeals
SCO Bankruptcy
SCO Financials
SCO Overview
SCO v IBM
SCO v Novell
SCO:Soup2Nuts
SCOsource
Sean Daly
Software Patents
Switch to Linux
Transcripts
Unix Books

Gear

Groklaw Gear

Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


You won't find me on Facebook


Donate

Donate Paypal


No Legal Advice

The information on Groklaw is not intended to constitute legal advice. While Mark is a lawyer and he has asked other lawyers and law students to contribute articles, all of these articles are offered to help educate, not to provide specific legal advice. They are not your lawyers.

Here's Groklaw's comments policy.


What's New

STORIES
No new stories

COMMENTS last 48 hrs
No new comments


Sponsors

Hosting:
hosted by ibiblio

On servers donated to ibiblio by AMD.

Webmaster
You're a minor nit, Tiger99! | 756 comments | Create New Account
Comments belong to whoever posts them. Please notify us of inappropriate comments.
You're a minor nit, Tiger99!
Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 01:56 PM EDT
Actually we are using Actel devices, which are flash programmed rather than being loaded from an external source. Very necessary in our application.

When I wanted to do something at home, I bought a very cheap development board. Same for the microcontroller, I just bought an Arduino. All the FPGA manufacturers sell those, along with umpteen third party suppliers, because I can't be bothered with attempting surface mount soldering at home, or making PCBs. It doesn't really cost any more, when you consider all the work involved.

But for analogue stuff, and audio in particular, I would always use an online PCB service to supply a 2 or 4 layer board. No surface mount components there, except decoupling capacitors and simple ICs, because the physical mounting of SMD components to the PCB turns resistors into strain gauges and capacitors into microphones. Many designers don't know why their products perform so poorly, but that is one reason.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Groklaw © Copyright 2003-2013 Pamela Jones.
All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Comments are owned by the individual posters.

PJ's articles are licensed under a Creative Commons License. ( Details )