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anyone care to pastebin a copy of the text?

I think that's solved now though, at least for a few ICs and toolchains, via things like MyHDL and/or rhea (tldr; Python wrappers) and websites like fpga4fun.com

Why don't these numbers ever list the width AND height AND length... I'd really like to know how many atoms each transistor was composed of.

doesn't the Willamette and Columbia river run along mountain range for a long while?

I wrote a tool like this for big high-performance test boards at work, the input was a spreadsheet, and I automatically generated (visual) schematics after assigning the netlist using a constraint solver. The analog guys review and debug using the graphical schematics, their design doc, and lab tools. I started the visualization end after thinking about how tumblr packs images onto a webpage pretty well, turns out 2d and 3d shape/box packing is a rich academic field.

Oh, by 'package' I meant heat-seal in plastic bags. 'Packaging' a silicon chip for electrical use should be pretty similar regardless of the production technique, given chemical compatibility, stress/strain of the chip and how packaging would add/affect that. There's wirebonding which is basically soldering wires from the silicon to some larger package-scale traces/larger-wires (often embedded in the package structure). There are a few ways of getting the actual FIBbed gizmo onto something macro-scale. Sometimes the thing you start with is large enough to handle easily, sometimes you bring in a CNC manipulator, use FIB to solder your gizmo to the manipulator, move the manipulator elsewhere and then 'tack weld' down your gizmo there and mill away the connection to the manipulator. Some systems have micro/nano vacuum manipulators. I bet on the high-end piezos are used to move things, but I am sure at some relatively larger scale mechanical movement wouldn't be too hard to use (depending on how cheap you need things to be, and how many times you want to repeat doing such connections).

spectruino's ADC isn't fast enough to capture all the data from a CCD data frame, thus to get an entire spectrum one needs to sample multiple times and shift the ADC sample clock... or deal with not having all the pixels. This method would be fine if your samples aren't changing, but for something like enzyme kinetics this non-simultaneous method will likely yield poor results. For applications that can use a monochromator, this method should be fine (albeit with lower spectral resolution since monochromators usually have quite high spectral resolution)

Very good point, I would think before making a fancy case and adding useless colorful LED rings, you would try to prove the actual detection concept, which hasn't been shown by the maker.

That's exactly what expensive notch filters do.

"What happened to the FDA's mission to protect the consumer? Why aren't rice imports tested for heavy metals?"

'FDA spokesman Noah Bartolucci told BBC News that the "FDA plans to review the new research on lead levels in imported rice released today".'

Seems like they're just laggy... is there requirement in law to test one gram of every Xth ton of imported food?

I suffered through childhood lead poisoning and I'm still here on HN!

Seems like the smart thing would be pushing rendering to the client. This is already done in real-time for coarse and simple models like PDB.