Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:07:36 GMT, Gary Tait <classicsat@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

D from BC <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:8b64e3lql2djr5v2b5fcr76c50r412p2mc@xxxxxxx:

Now it's not easy to make a DSP chip in a garage but I think all the
bulk of the thinking is in the software/firmware.

Exactly. The actual electronics are usually pretty fundamental. The work is
done in software.

Question is...can software be considered electronics too?

Nowadays, yes.

D from BC

It's just a definition, but I'd suggest that if the work doesn't
involve working with electricity (which programming doesn't) than it's
not "electronics." Programmers don't have to understand anything about
electrons or fields or things like that, and often don't.

John



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