22 Mar
2009
22 Mar
'09
8:26 a.m.
Jim Battle wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
...
>
> Nowadays many "hardware" positions seem to rely on one's ability to
> spew Verilog or VHDL and not know which end of the soldiering iron is
> the hot one.
yes. And I certainly hope that never ends, because it creates a
(seemingly) endless number of consulting opportunities for me!
I love it when "I've never actually used a scope" people run into
trouble with their fpga's :-) call me! please! :-)
On problem seems to be that there are not as many "generalist" these days
who can span hardware, hardware debug and software. Those skills seem
so "old school" to many people.
But then they try to synthesize & fit their design, and then make it
work, they start to appreciate that it's helpful to understand how
the transistors connected to the pins actually work.
-brad