Why does my lab computer hate me?
Booting System -> SAS controller OK in Windows
Rebooting System -> SAS ctrl errors out in Windows (hardware failure)
Shutdown System + reboot -> SAS ctrl still errors out
Reboot + Enter (mainboard) BIOS + quitting with no changes made -> SAS ctrl OK in Windows
*sigh*
@manawyrm @sur5r @rasteri
Well, #Broadcom sells a shitload of #PCIe -> #PCI & #PCI -> #ISA chips under the #Avago & #PLX brand.
Even some that go the other way around and that were used on some low-end Radeon HD cards to allow use in a PCI slot despite the GPU officially only supporting PCIe.
In fact I (used to?) have such a card [AFAICR a Sapphire Radeon HD3450 Go!] ca. 2008 when I was tight on cash and needed an an upgrade from an FX5200...
AppCAD Does Transmission Lines
Broadcom and Agilent are perhaps not household words in every household, but among those who work with RF, they are common enough names. An Agilent developer wrote AppCAD to help with common RF design computations and now works for Avago who bought Broadcom. But whoever's branding is on it, you can download the tool from Broadcom or check out the latest beta version. Then watch [IMASI Guy's] video below on how to use part of it.
What can it do? According to the website:
Even if you aren't doing radio design per se , high-speed design often means you need to consider strip lines or transmission through coax or parallel lines. The program makes it easy to work on things like that as long as you are using Microsoft Windows.
When we think of CAD, we think of a program that lets us do some kind of physical design. That's not really what it means in this case. But it is a powerful set of tools that can handle many RF calculations and it is worth checking out.
#toolhacks #agilent #avago #broadcom #rfdesign #transmissionline
T.F.G.
Kevin Karhan 
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