Recent content by schenley101

Does it have to be a digital design?

I would use a multiplexer. TCs are pretty immune to interference and cross talk. it sounds like use would only have to multiplex 4 or 5 together which isn't very much. Ive done systems where we multiplex 12 or 15 together. What DAQ are you using and how often do you need to read each...

through many years of dealing with MATLAB, I've found that it always seems to need twice as much memory as common sense would dictate. with memory so cheap i would go to 16 GB. What simulations are you dealing with?

Personally for that price range, I would get some audiotechnica M50's. They take a while to burn in, but they sound very good for the money ~$110. You should go check out headfi.org.

so we engineers should just give up now, we can't create new and/or improved stuff? I guess I'll have to prepare for very early retirement.....

I'm an EE so I don't really know what people outside of electricity use RMS for, but the reason that you don't use the mean of the abs values is because it is not "statistically robust" ie it is "greatly" affected by outliers. I don't know anything about its convergence and what not.

You might want to look at a different motherboard. That one has sata connectors facing out instead of to the right. If you have a long video card in that slot, it will block th sata connectors. Otherwise its seems to be a good build. i'll second a better heatsink.

Isn't it only for one very small company? I bet Intel is using this as a trial run for reconfigurable logic etc for future processors. Intel will probably just buy them if it pans out.

In the bios is it set to use sata300? I noticed that most of the review units came with sata150 drives. Just a thought

second that.

Seconded a zillion times over. Its those damn humans!

woo audio makes really nice headphone stands

are you running the 64bit version. the 32 bit version seems to run out of memory and the frame rate stutters.

the newest version of MATLAB 2010b has built in (For Nvidia only) GPGPU functions and is relatively easy to use, especially compared to CUDA/OpenCL. I just mested around with it for a few hours and so far and have noted speed ups with large arrays and dealing with trig functions, and small speed...

i was just about to say something about that but you beat me to the punch.