<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/@niconiconi" class="u-url mention">@<span>niconiconi</span></a></span> Honestly as someone who actually does from-scratch board designs, it amazes me how much of the EE world is just copying reference designs with tiny changes and not fully understanding anything about what's going on.</p><p>Like, I don't want to follow "match traces to within X mils" or something nonsensical like that. I feel much better actually knowing setup/hold timing of the interface, calculating the timing budget, knowing the velocity factor of my stackup, and deriving matching rules based on that.</p>
