What are you referring to, where exactly in there? I poked "around the one hour mark" and didn't stumble across it, but am not gonna watch the whole thing. It's over an hour of somebody talking at a camera.
Does an offhand comment buried in the middle of a 90-minute youtube ramble really strike you as appropriate notification of such an important requirement? Especially when this requirement doesn't appear anyplace where it can be read?
I just gave an example, I didn't mean to say it was the exclusive source of info. Every discussion I've seen of what the layout would actually be was always "roughly 10mm^2, pending finalization of the harness". Also, it was talked about many times on the slack. Look, I have no dog in this fight. All I meant to say was that this was not some sudden last minute change of plans. Could things have been communicated more clearly? Sure. But that's par for the course for an alpha program like this.
The slide at 1:02:49 has "standardized harness" in bold red. It's up for a few minutes and the presenter discussed the harness and reasoning for a good minute or so.
He says (1:03:00) that the harness "will be isolated from the area that your design goes into" and (1:03:21) that it will "enable probing and controlling your region if you want".
In other words, the video says you can simply not connect to it and not use it if you don't want it. He never says anything about it being hardwired to the padframe.
Then, two weeks before tapeout, they changed the rules and made this thing not only mandatory, but made it the only way your design can boot up or communicate with the outside world.
> In other words, the video says you can simply not connect to it and not use it if you don't want it. He never says anything about it being hardwired to the padframe.
I didn't get that impression. As I understood it, the probing and controlling is, entirely, "if you want". However IO via the harness is not optional. As the other user says, perhaps this was not communicated clearly to you, but an intentional bait and switch it doesn't appear to be.
My definition, it’s not a bait and switch because they weren’t deceptive and you were never sold anything. Could be better communicated? Sure. But deceptive? No.
Really? Where can we read about it?
> E.g. see https://youtu.be/EczW2IWdnOM from June around the one hour mark.
What are you referring to, where exactly in there? I poked "around the one hour mark" and didn't stumble across it, but am not gonna watch the whole thing. It's over an hour of somebody talking at a camera.
Does an offhand comment buried in the middle of a 90-minute youtube ramble really strike you as appropriate notification of such an important requirement? Especially when this requirement doesn't appear anyplace where it can be read?