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csboyer
·há 5 anos·discuss
For DSSS demod, my guess is a 20 tap match filter designed from a resampled RRC filtered barker sequence. Haven’t looked at the VHDL, but that’s how I’d do it.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
No one who really knows can say due to NDAs. We just know rough order of magnitude price.

I can see $30 million for 5nm. With material costs approaching $20 to $30 a chip for mobile SoCs, you need quite a high sales price and volume for the economics to work.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
Paying for the masks is the big upfront cost - into the $5 to $10s of millions depending on the process node.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
Due to the frequency division/time division duplexing nature of 3GPP protocols, a mesh network is very challenging and non-trival. The 5G standardization has some study items on multi-hop networks, but that is a ways out and I’m not sure how and if it will even manifest in the standard.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
Knowing people in both the legal and software world, law is a tough profession with old world business expectations. Almost everything is “last minute” due to either court deadlines or your client dropping everything on you because something happened and it has to be fixed now.

In-house counsel jobs can be a bit more relaxing, as you might be working on longer term projects rather than the latest disaster that fell into your lap.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
The pointer variable does not contain the type - it only stores the address. Sizeof will return whatever the machine address width is.

The type is implicitly stored as the pointers type. Casting a pointer can change a piece of memory to be interpreted as any type you want. Although the cast might not make logical sense or may even caused undefined behavior in C.

Pointer arithmetic works off of whatever the current type is, as the compiler needs to know how to the memory offsets.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
As far as I know, pregnancy suppresses the immune response in order to keep the body from attacking the baby itself. That’s why doctors recommend pregnant women not to eat under cooked eggs, sushi and other high risk food items. Flu shots are also heavily encouraged for the same reason - the flu is a lot tougher to beat.
csboyer
·há 6 anos·discuss
Not at a FAANG company but I will ask stuff that might show up as “easy” on leet code.

Examples: run length encoding problem or a bit extracting/setting question. I want to see if the candidate can formulate a simple state machine and they understand bit manipulation. I target the bit manipulation questions for firmware/embedded software roles, which very much involves reading and setting bits from hardware registers all day long.