| ??? 12/17/04 19:00 Read: times |
#83355 - Weekend On-Topic (WOnT) |
Hi Everyone,
I'm going to pose a riddle, of sorts, to everyone. And yes, it is on topic. I am not going to try and recount a particular event, but this sort of thing has happened and it usually caused a great deal of tooth-gnashing and hand-wringing. See if you can figure out the problem. A particular manufacturer produced a widget that used an 8052 to control a particular something (it doesn't matter what). This was a mature product. It had been in production for over a decade and tens of thousands of them were in the field. The product was tried and true and battle proven. Then one day, they received word from the quality control department that the product no longer functioned properly. It worked under certain conditions, but under other conditions it did not. The design had not changed. The firmware had not changed. The board had not changed. The cables had not changed. They had changed nothing about this product, yet suddenly, with a newly produced batch of product and for no apparent reason, the product simply didn't work right any more. Who can figure out what happened? Hint. It wasn't a manufacturing error. It was consistent with every piece made, and every piece was completely in spec. |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Weekend On-Topic (WOnT) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| microsoft ?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Cute ;) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Weekend on Topic | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A very reasonable hypothesis | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| happened here | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The chip changed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What happened? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Also an excellent hypothesis | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| too much | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Nah. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Me too, But | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| systematic debugging | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pb-free? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Did the temp characteristics change? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| another one from memory | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What it's not. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Solution | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speed! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Speed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Would get the oscope, first | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Try this | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What it is? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Think volume | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not a puzzle!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Apologies | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Y2K-and-something | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Y2K + something | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Y2k05 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The Unix Epoch and the Year 2038 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yet another true story... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A perfect example | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Newer IC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Answer time...? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| another guess | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| language | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Faster does not mean better! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ok | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Gladly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| To tell the whole truth... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hidden parameters | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Parasitic parameters | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Chip manufacturer changed? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Faster/slower or "controlled" rise time | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Answer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Amazing.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Amazed | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Split Planes | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A bit disappointed... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Series resistors and line matching | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Series termination resistors | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Series termination | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| SWR | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| simulation to the rescue | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thanks! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The same moment? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The same moment! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I'm Back. | 01/01/70 00:00 |