theatrus2
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
I’ve had the best luck with Mellanox ConnectX 4 or 5 cards. The 5 can happily run 25G on a modern lane constrained system.
It’s already below FCC limits for unintended radiation - it’s not going to block AM activity far from the vehicle, but putting the antenna in the midst of all that radiated noise is challenging.
The material you get out of such a printer is of course entirely different from an injection molded part.
Altium is still a Delphi-ish program, though with lots of things now just compiling to .Net. The core layout package has always been solid with a very small core developer group running it which is really more what its known for. The library management parts with collaboration are actually getting a lot better (ECAD<->MCAD, etc).
Altium gained tons of weird stuff with a super weird push to "FPGAs for everything", a giant off-shore (not Australian or Carlsbad) development team, and... all of that crash and burned and no actual customer actually understood what was happening. Much of that legacy is still in parts, but most of the features have been removed by now.
Various modules do carry FCC modular approval. The whole product needs to be certified of course.
I'm working on a bit of a hobby project to rebuild a beefier Mascon. Mainly inspired by how much I enjoyed Running Train