On.Hardware

When writing our software, we need to think about hardware which will run our software.

Bringing Architecture of Operating Systems to XXI Century – Part II. Desirable Improvements

April 24, 2019 by “No Bugs” Bunny

post-mortem debugging

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low-end versions of the new OS should be lean enough to run on a ~$1 MCU (these days ~=4K RAM, 32K ROM)

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last N minutes of the life of the production program before crashing, should be replayable on my development box.

Filed under: On.HardwareMCUOn.System Architecture(Re)Actors

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7×6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part III. Results and Conclusions

November 9, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

7x6 routers-x-adapters matrix. Test results @5GHz

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There is no such thing as 'the best router'; strictly speaking - you need to test each specific pair of (router,adapter) to get anywhere-reliable results.

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with that limited data we have now, I’d rather stay away from Realtek-based adapters.

Filed under: On.HardwareWi-Fi

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7x6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part II. Adapters

November 8, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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We’re continuing our series of posts on real-world testing of “how different Wi-Fi adapters work with different Wi-Fi routers

Filed under: On.HardwareWi-Fi

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Real-World 802.11ac Wi-Fi Testing: 7x6 Routers-x-Adapters Matrix. Part I. Routers.

November 7, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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"Whatever throughput numbers are promised by router manufacturers, in real world should be divided by the factor of 2.5x-5x

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"Each router was tested with each of the cards/adapters, which gives us 42 tests on 2.4GHz band and 42 tests on 5GHz

Filed under: On.HardwareWi-Fi

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