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@whitequark chip desperately needs more ground

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@whitequark nfc card is the vendors ideal of a perfect package

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@whitequark Sometimes I think about how much gold was used for the bondwires of phone chips that I worked on. There are a lot of phones. We didn't know future sales volume at the time, but every extra bondwire we added would end up consuming multiple kilograms of gold. I feel good that I put the PLL loop filter fully on chip, but feel guilty about the one test pin. I'm glad they're sometimes using copper bondwires now.

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