Re: What's the Toughest Branch in Electronics?

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:15:10 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:07:36 GMT, Gary Tait <classicsat@xxxxxxxxx>
D from BC <myrealaddress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in

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.

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.

At first, I was thinking, "Of course, it takes place on an electronic
thing, the computer", but then the Jacquard loom came to mind...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom

Cheers!
Rich

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