Pin # convention on SC75 (if there is one...)?

[John Larkin]

Yes, I never understood that either. Seems the semi industry is not very
competent when it comes to package and pinout standardizations. And it's
not rocket science. In medical we and most other companies had sent a SW
engineer to the DICOM meetings on a regular basis and now we all have
one common standard. When there is a noise problem I can run the pics
and video loops from pretty much any system right here in the lab, don't
even have to travel.

Today we had a delay generator board that would start up run for a
couple of seconds, then reset itself and do it again. We scoped it
with our FLIR thermal imager and one of the US8 logic gates was
blazing like a tiny comet just before shutdown. It was in backwards.

John

 

[John Larkin]

A typical example of the nonsense that a bloated bureaucracy comes up
with. Unfortunately that will lead to confusion with, among other
things, SMT. A 0402 cap is now also a 1005. What will definitely lead to
layout errors is that Eurocrats call the 0201 size "0603". Pretty stupid
IMHO.

Good grief, if thay'd wanted to invent a notation, it could have been
"K4" or "E201" or "IEC-127591/07bis" or something. At least they could
try to be original.

John

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

I like the 'im', but what do we use for the milemeter (??) = 1.609344
km? ;-)

Of course. Like I said, work to rule. Get up there noses. Specify the
trailing zeros if you have to, to twelve places, just so they know there
probably aren't any significant digits actually down there.

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Of course. Like I said, work to rule. Get up there noses. Specify the
trailing zeros if you have to, to twelve places, just so they know there
probably aren't any significant digits actually down there.

Seriously, make the beroucrats grope in those figures like Basil Fawlty
groping inside the tattered remains of a blancmange looking for a roast
duck. That should make them see reason, or go mad trying not to.

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

beroucrats

Sorry about the typos, I'm angry today, several reasons, and this thread
was reason to have a good tetch. I'm done. >

 

[Joerg]

Today we had a delay generator board that would start up run for a
couple of seconds, then reset itself and do it again. We scoped it
with our FLIR thermal imager and one of the US8 logic gates was
blazing like a tiny comet just before shutdown. It was in backwards.

Man, you guys are high-tech. Usually this stuff is done by moving the
back of the hand over the board, touching a few chips with the finger
tips and when a yelping emerges from the mouth of the tester the culprit
is found. After that it's looking where the burn gel is.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

A typical example of the nonsense that a bloated bureaucracy comes up
with. Unfortunately that will lead to confusion with, among other
things, SMT. A 0402 cap is now also a 1005. What will definitely lead to
layout errors is that Eurocrats call the 0201 size "0603". Pretty stupid
IMHO.

Actually, its brilliant! Its one more step towards them not being
able to do anything right. A few more years, and it will be illegal to
even breathe in Europe. After all the idiots suffocate we can sit back
and laugh.


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prove it.
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

A few more years, and it will be illegal to
even breathe in Europe.

No, no... they'll just tax us to death for doing it, or make it pay-per
litre and the poor will just have to suffocate for non-payment. I see your
point though.

If a standards change has no clear grounding in engineering, why not just
ignore it? In the end they'll adopt your standards because it's the only
stable thing they can grasp.

 

[Rich Grise]

No, no... they'll just tax us to death for doing it, or make it pay-per
litre and the poor will just have to suffocate for non-payment. I see your
point though.

If a standards change has no clear grounding in engineering, why not just
ignore it? In the end they'll adopt your standards because it's the only
stable thing they can grasp.

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Good Luck!
Rich

 

[jasen]

Just another bout of cucumber-straightening frenzy. Work to rule. Specify
your quarter inches in explicit 12 decimal place exactitude. That should
really get up their noses.

USA has been using "metric" inches for some decades now (UK also) The
ratio is exactly 1" = 25.4mm, so the worst case is three extra places
in decimal expressions,

Bye.
Jasen

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

USA has been using "metric" inches for some decades now (UK also) The
ratio is exactly 1" = 25.4mm, so the worst case is three extra places
in decimal expressions,

Of course. I know this. That's the whole point. It's business as usual,
isn't it? I'm just saying ignore the bureacrats, and if they really won't
shut up, give it to them with TWELVE decimals, expressing trailing zeros,
just to annoy them. They'll soon give up and find better work to do.

 

[Joerg]

Of course. I know this. That's the whole point. It's business as usual,
isn't it? I'm just saying ignore the bureacrats, and if they really won't
shut up, give it to them with TWELVE decimals, expressing trailing zeros,
just to annoy them. ...

... They'll soon give up and find better work to do.

Like what?

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Like what?

I can dream, can't I? >

 

[Joerg]

I can dream, can't I? >

Well, yeah, but with bureaucrats those dreams often end up in tatters
and they really come up with something they think is "better". Often
something incredibly stupid that distroys business. Like WEEE...

IMHO the society that can live with the least amount of bureaucrats per
capita is better off than others.

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Like what?

Working for the UN? ;-)


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida