The coffee maker in this hotel room has a sticker "with intellibrew" and I would just like the damn thing to work. It is a terrible idea to add 500 million transistors to a device just because you can & it's cheap. Terrible.
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Replying to @halvarflake @bofh453
an interesting question: how many transistors is too many? your device probably doesn't have 500 million or even 5, though still a fair bit. a low-end device would have some tens of thousands in an ASIC or a 4/8-bit micro. is that fine? when it becomes not?
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Low end cortex m0 is a few ten thousand gates?
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Replying to @halvarflake @bofh453
the amount of transistors isn't really a good metric. add a few KB of SRAM cache that changes next to nothing about the complexity of the device and you've just tripled gate count
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I guess my thought is along the lines of: Because it is cheap & convenient & updateable, we often add a cpu that is then programmed to "simulate" a much simpler fsm; this simulation is often buggy, and we add heaps of nonessential software complexity (because at that point it...
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Yep, the problem is not the uc but the awful sw running on the uc.
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