alt Hacker NewsWhat do you mean "testing" it, reading hardcoded data from e-marker chip, or really test it?
The later would require multi-thousands dollar machine.
What do you mean "testing" it, reading hardcoded data from e-marker chip, or really test it?
The later would require multi-thousands dollar machine.
I'm curious as to why it is so expensive? Admittedly I know very little about electronics, and naturally the validation testing that a cable manufacturer does is going to be more thorough, but for consumer-grade testing couldn't we just have an FPGA or microcontroller scream the fibonnaci sequence in one end and another listen for the fibonnaci sequence on the other end? Sort of like memtest but instead ramping up speed until the transmission becomes garbled.