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

>Framework

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?

The hardware guys screwed up wiring (though, to their credit, Better to fail in the lab than thousands of feet in the air)

We just got delayed

Company ate the cost of the delays