Hardware Podcasts

426: Equivalently Annoying

Embedded.fm · 9 Sept 2022 · 1h 05m · Episode 426

What this episode covers

Hosts Elecia White and Chris White discuss their recent vacation, burnout, and the challenges of onboarding junior engineers. They provide a detailed technical breakdown of Cypress PSoC chips, explaining their programmable logic architecture and the significant tooling and source control pain points involved. The episode concludes with a list of specific VSCode extensions for productivity and advice on debugging performance issues with Docker and Linux drivers.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists and early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Cypress
Chips
PSoC, STM32
Tools
VSCode, ModusToolbox, PSoC Creator, Docker, TensorFlow, GitLens, AutoScroll, Doxygen, Cortex-Debug
Also
Orion EQ-2

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