[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Manu]

On 20 September 2013 14:10, Nick Sabalausky <
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> On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:32:09 +1000
> Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Aye to that; I had a lot of problems with the gnd circuit on vintage
> > hardware. They were very poorly isolated, and the gnd circuit would
> > often feed-back through all manner of surprising places.
> > A capacitor will smooth it off a bit, maybe protect you against some
> > suddenly flipping bits, or at least delay it until after a bit value
> > sampling tick has happened.
> > Considering how tricky that stuff is in practise, I'd like to know
> > more how it extends to modern circuitry. surely modern hardware must
> > be better isolated...
> >
>
> A good question, I'd be curious too.
>
> I understand that at physical scale of modern hardware they actually
> have to take quantum phenomena into account. Which is kind of
> mind-blowing. I have no idea how much that might relate to gnd
> isolation though.
>
> Maybe this just shows my naivety, but I wonder if modern clock speeds
> might actually help dealing with gnd isolation. Ie, not enough time for
> the signals to bounce enough to cause trouble? I'm probably just
> speaking total BS though.
>

Heh, yeah.. nar, I don't think so.
I'm not an expert either, but I'd say just because the signal graph is
compressed horizontally, doesn't really make it simpler :) .. Timing is all
relative.
I think as your clock rate increases, you need to deal with MORE problems,
like resonance, and electromagnetic effects on neighbouring circuits.
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