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Aurornis • today at 5:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> That's not even some other language poorly translated to English, that's just a bunch of words.

The language makes sense if you've worked with radio chips or firmware.

Terms like XO (crystal oscillator) and pin mux (chip pin multiplexer, basically assigning pins to their role) are common for embedded work, not just radio work.

Usually in a project you get that language hidden in a separate implementation doc where casual readers won't get confused by it.


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ChuckMcM • today at 5:40 PM

Yes there are radio terms in there. :-) That said, I've written combined firmware/gateware drivers for dedicated radio chips and that paragraph makes little sense to me. Even the RFSoC docs from AMD/Xilinx are better written and they are pretty damn dense.

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