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Tim Williams
John Devereux said:Optimal should include the development cost, which should include the
time taken to do the optimization
This is something I am forever getting wrong myself - I can spend far
too long "optimizing" - fiddling - with the design, at all stages.
I tend to "play" with my projects, changing a resistor here, running a
simulation there, pushing traces around until they look nice. After a few
days to weeks of doing that, I find my changes slow down, even the useless
cosmetic things. That's when I decide I've hit a local maxima and order a
prototype. Then I do the same thing in real life, which if the simulation
wasn't lying to me, needs few changes if any.
Tim