All designs from drawing board to working prototype require three experiments before delivery
1. Where the fuck is daylight, we tried to follow the specs
2. Triage, escape with only critical bugs fixed
3. Overreach - we could make this work like the spec and close those last few bugs.
Then, as experiment #3 rolls off the line we become unusually fond of our one night stand in triage. Proper use of the 80/20 rule emerges from panic and anguish. Just get us hardware boot and get rid of the hot spots across the surface. And for god sake make some improvements on ESD protection.
The last thing we fix are continuously available resources or 'logical' hotspots. It's always hotspots. The reason it is always hot spots that must not intrude is that the die is designed to utmost precision to evenly diffuse current flow and hence.
Every problem in geometry and engineering can be solved with three data points. Bet on the solution from the second data point.
Showing posts with label Engineering. Show all posts
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
ELF Neuron: dendrite agnostic
Elf means eleven in German according to Pete. Robert, Pete and I built a cognitive neuron's brain; the e500 CPU core for embedded applications. The dendrites were vast and confusing pandemonium of requests to become real. We wrote a spec that could be combined with other specs for other vaguely worded promises to deliver on time, underbudget and done completely right. Pick one at this point in the guessing game. You will not get any choice you make because not one single item on the list of parts is known. These physical implementations of the logic and state functions depends on the partitioning into know ensembles of as yet unrealized specification for a communication means that would change the game.
We all searched for this wonder of engineering imagination and found entrenched standards that had to change themselves completely each time they were upgraded. The switch from PCI to PCI Express was that of two manifestly unlike each other as the scandalous use of PCI in both labels. In short, we realised that everyone was trained to swich standards at a moments notice no matter what the label said. The universe was dendrite agnostic.
The substratum or the structures Dispophy, a set of dissapative structures far from thermodynamic equilibrium, which match sensorium to perception, the ability to remember a good move in design space. Operant conditioning for later instances that sufficiently match this current sensorium, the specious moment with attendant experience.
This was the prow of the ship I commanded. The best design team I had ever worked with and I held them together for unending experiments on our beast, the 603E. We loved this lady and treated her to unholy torture for the good of us all. The whole team together and by teams reaped the rewards of the inquisituon.
Why does the clock stop at 300Mhz? The design was rated originally to 100Mhz so the designer randomly choose 300Mhz as plenty fast enough. So we set it to 1000Mhz and set out to make it there. We shrank it, we ran it to the melting point of the chip. We shocked it with voltage spikes and we learned how to borrow time, deposit time, lend time, squeeze time, expand time, stop time, speed time up, stop at any particular time for quite a while, ignore time. What is time to a pig?
The secret was to build a monkey brain into the technoid brain. The limbic system was a string of latches that were not comprehended by the instruction set architecture. There are various kinds of un-architected state in a processor. The uninitialized cache memory which holds the near state information. A Cache Memory architecture comes alive in the mind as layers of remembered history and projected futures.
Even the codewriter does not go to the core. The core is owned by The Admin, usually clothed as The Kernal. But within the core are many know collections of parts. The state of the art imitations of the ideas we saw other people talk about at ISSCC. We all ran to ISSCC to spill our guts on every single fucking thing we had recently discovered about how to stop fucking things up with inverters. Or RAM arrays or physical checking and logic simulation and chip integration. The fine grained distribution of disciplines is the fundmental law of engineering, and is therefore the second law of engineering.
The first law of engineering is that we are in the business of telling you how many people we can hurt with given inputs and expected outputs.
The physician is employed because of the engineer and the lawyer who must sue him. He can choose to do no harm as his consciounce will allow but the engineer designed the bullet and the gun that caused the harm.
We built a fucking cognitive neuron called elf. My brainchildren are through the land helping Papa Legba and Papa Guysmo
DisPissFFE
We all searched for this wonder of engineering imagination and found entrenched standards that had to change themselves completely each time they were upgraded. The switch from PCI to PCI Express was that of two manifestly unlike each other as the scandalous use of PCI in both labels. In short, we realised that everyone was trained to swich standards at a moments notice no matter what the label said. The universe was dendrite agnostic.
The substratum or the structures Dispophy, a set of dissapative structures far from thermodynamic equilibrium, which match sensorium to perception, the ability to remember a good move in design space. Operant conditioning for later instances that sufficiently match this current sensorium, the specious moment with attendant experience.
This was the prow of the ship I commanded. The best design team I had ever worked with and I held them together for unending experiments on our beast, the 603E. We loved this lady and treated her to unholy torture for the good of us all. The whole team together and by teams reaped the rewards of the inquisituon.
Why does the clock stop at 300Mhz? The design was rated originally to 100Mhz so the designer randomly choose 300Mhz as plenty fast enough. So we set it to 1000Mhz and set out to make it there. We shrank it, we ran it to the melting point of the chip. We shocked it with voltage spikes and we learned how to borrow time, deposit time, lend time, squeeze time, expand time, stop time, speed time up, stop at any particular time for quite a while, ignore time. What is time to a pig?
The secret was to build a monkey brain into the technoid brain. The limbic system was a string of latches that were not comprehended by the instruction set architecture. There are various kinds of un-architected state in a processor. The uninitialized cache memory which holds the near state information. A Cache Memory architecture comes alive in the mind as layers of remembered history and projected futures.
Even the codewriter does not go to the core. The core is owned by The Admin, usually clothed as The Kernal. But within the core are many know collections of parts. The state of the art imitations of the ideas we saw other people talk about at ISSCC. We all ran to ISSCC to spill our guts on every single fucking thing we had recently discovered about how to stop fucking things up with inverters. Or RAM arrays or physical checking and logic simulation and chip integration. The fine grained distribution of disciplines is the fundmental law of engineering, and is therefore the second law of engineering.
The first law of engineering is that we are in the business of telling you how many people we can hurt with given inputs and expected outputs.
The physician is employed because of the engineer and the lawyer who must sue him. He can choose to do no harm as his consciounce will allow but the engineer designed the bullet and the gun that caused the harm.
We built a fucking cognitive neuron called elf. My brainchildren are through the land helping Papa Legba and Papa Guysmo
DisPissFFE
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