Message from @Tendril
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Horrifying.
And then convincing them "well, it's the motherboard's fault"
And you're shipping the built-in-test for the next contractor in the chain
can you change a temp sensor on a motherboard? , I thought most sensors are etched in silicon
And you can't do shit because contracts are already signed and you can't do a complete redesign because your little firm may be bankrupted
Yeah, sounds like it'd have you really backed into a corner.
software is comfy
You can always ship a patch
exceptvin embedded design...
Hardware is frightening and nightmarish in comparison
So you'd have to forgive if us hw guys are more autist
We literally have to have whole designs in our heads running in pseudo simulation casually
Which leads to cool a-ha moments
Fortunately, I've only been stuck with fault-finding and repairs.
But it's generally shitty
Either way, you do have to be a giant fucking autist with hardware, because it's like you said.
You have to be 100% with what you do.
Yeah repairing and hobby stuff is fun
I'd hate the fault finding thing
Well you need a better testing framework and harness
lmao we just winged it.
So you can plug in a single test point and test mostly everything you care about
My boss would go "Are you 100% sure, 200% sure, etc."
jtag?
Until you crack and go "uh"
"fuck off then"
apprentice life
jtag is a thing sure for running incircuit tests but you may want for stuff for application specific passive components
We had a bad "cable" once kill months of testing
sheeit
I don't know why I can't get cool working with electronics.
But it was a huge mil rs422 thing
Get started with digital logic on arduino
Did you get castrated by your boss afterwards
who says
"YOU ASSUMED THE CABLE WORKED"
No
Because the whole team fucked up
Our tests and firmware crashed spectacularly because of assumptions about the underlying hardware
what happened after the fuckup?