my client wants the docx version of my documentation for some reason :/ ... It's not normal practice to give the editable version of documentation to a client, is it?
@StaceyAnne Depending on what's in your contract, in the US your employer might actually own the copyright on the work you do. I know you're not in the US, but anywhere else except Europe I'd expect the law to be even less protective of copyrights...
Given you're probably working long-distance (maybe not even in the same country with your employer) it's probably a lot more up to how much you trust them than to what the law says anyway.
@StaceyAnne I always have to worry about that with the themes I publicly release. There have been many cases where I have caught someone that has removed the text at the bottom but a message to the owner or their host, usually straightens them out. I am sure there are hundreds more, I am not aware of. My suggestion is to add some easter eggs in the code and documentation so that if there is ever a dispute you can show all those hidden identifiers.
@rawbrawb I have a very strong feeling they used a different terminology simply to communicate the waveform non-dependency. However, if you saw my edit to my answer, I am really curious as to why anyone would want to use a square or triangular wave when a sine would suffice. The sine would need less channel bandwidth due to not having harmonics, and would lend itself just as well to comparator-based pulse-stream regeneration.
@rawbrawb Nope, TOSlink is one of the possible S/PDIF media. S/PDIF can be optical (TOS) or electrical. In fact, most inexpensive S/PDIF peripherals that come built in on PC motherboards, e.g. ASUS high end motherboards, are almost always electrical S/PDIF.
@rawbrawb I personally prefer TOSlink over electrical, because of the electrical isolation it provides between devices.
@AnindoGhosh thanks, the Vtt is to provide a minmal eye opening spec, poor way of specifying it. so that makes sense. the higher harmonic waveforms will open up the eye laterally.
@AnindoGhosh I note that some one hasn't had their usual snarky answer to the last Meta question yet.
@rawbrawb Yep, that's what I now understand. Overall, I think S/PDIF was an ill-structured spec. Had they done a better job, we would have been spared HDMI, with it's baggage of mandatory DRM, which I hate!
@rawbrawb I wonder if our pet snark is ill, on vacation, or has found a life. Not seen too much activity from that direction today.
@rawbrawb I'm an anarchist at heart - what you suggest would work for me (maybe), but not for the suffering masses crushed under the dictatorial thumb of Big Business.
@rawbrawb I refrained from mentioning more morbid possibilities, out of the goodness of my heart. If I cannot manage to solder wires onto this QFN package I am messing with, my good cheer might evaporate.
@rawbrawb It's on my Amazon wishlist, but not yet, no. The value (or lack thereof) of Indian currency precludes such luxuries, at least for me, for now.
@NickHalden I use an assembly shop here in Mumbai that does that kind of stuff really inexpensively, by hand. Works out to about 4 cents a solder point in single unit volume, and lower for larger orders. This is not counting the boards themselves and the parts, of course.
@AnindoGhosh awww yeah that's exactly what im looking for. that would only run me like $10 on top of the board/BOM costs.
@ThePhoton haha maybe. if that's the case i guess i could just suck it up and do it myself at the office. we have a decent microscope and great soldering irons
and work doesn't mind when i use the tools for my own side projects which is very nice of them
@NickHalden If you have a Metcal iron, it should be easy. Just tack down pins on two opposite corners to hold the part in place, then hit the rest ofthe pins.
@NickHalden However, if you want to do this on a regular-ish basis, I can get you in touch with them, or I can be the middleman for free as well, since I do go visit them all the time.
@NickHalden Mail me a BOM, I'll phone and ask in the morning. In general, commonly used parts are not a problem, but some of the more esoteric parts I use, I need to provide them with.
@NickHalden My mail address is in my profile.
Would anyone know what that 16x is, to the top left of the second diagram?
@NickHalden I wouldn't put my snail-mail address in my profile, would I? eMail, of course. The boards themselves would have to be postal / courier of course, unless you want me to use a local board fabber as well (those are expensive in India).
@NickHalden Thanks... so next question, if all dimensions are in mm, why are there several dimensions in pairs?
@ThePhoton Yes, commas are decimal separators, as seems to be the norm for any TI datasheets by TI Japan, or a few other places. It's darn inconsistent.
I'm trying to measure the relative intensity noise (RIN) of a laser using an RF spectrum analyser. It's a fairly common method (outline: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-35/issue-5/features/how-to-measure-relative-intensity-noise-in-lasers.html) although I wondered if someone ...
@coding_corgi Vs = Vsupply. Some common terms are Vss (source supply), Vs (supply), Vcc (whatever the cc means), and also Vee, Vdd, and many more. I wish there were a single web page one could look up all those acronyms and their definitions at.
@coding_corgi When I said insufficient context and asked for the link, that was because datasheets will generally specify any short-forms like that someplace.
@coding_corgi I've found that a bit of rigor in reading datasheets pays off over time. However, every time I've tried to read an entire "detailed" microcontroller datasheet end to end, I admit that I have had some very restful sleep.
@jippie OK, good, so today I learnt something new. My prior knowledge of continuous rotation servos was restricted to hobby servos modified by disabling the encoding potentiometer.
@jippie That may be so, but in S/PDIF terminology (as also other comparator based transmission methods) it's Voltage threshold-to-Threshold in English.
