PSOC Humor

I received an email advertisement from Avnet for the Cypress PSOC
FirstTouch Starter kit.  I noticed an unusual feature...

Key Features:

    * Four embedded designs right out of the box
    * No code, no debugging PSoC Express-based design platform
    * 16-pin connection interface to plug the malfunction expansion
card into target boards
    * Pins accessible for user functions
    * Convenient, USB thumb drive format
    * I2C and ISSP support


Anyone else think this is a bit odd?  But perhaps there is a market
for "malfunction expansion" cards.  Who knew?

On 2008-01-03, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Key Features:
>

>     * 16-pin connection interface to plug the malfunction
>       expansion card into target boards

> Anyone else think this is a bit odd?

Honesty in marketing?  That would be a bit odd. ;)

> But perhaps there is a market for "malfunction expansion"
> cards.

I don't know if there's a market, but there have been plenty of
them shipped from various vendors over the years.  If you're
going to admit up front that's what you're shipping, they sure
would be cheaper to make...

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With their first generation PSOC, this could have been an honest statement.
With the new PSOC generation, its probably just an honest mistake. 
multifunction?

"rickman" <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:b7ef3986-5278-46f6-a603-dc8c7bdfb306@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
>I received an email advertisement from Avnet for the Cypress PSOC
> FirstTouch Starter kit.  I noticed an unusual feature...
>
> Key Features:
>
>    * Four embedded designs right out of the box
>    * No code, no debugging PSoC Express-based design platform
>    * 16-pin connection interface to plug the malfunction expansion
> card into target boards
>    * Pins accessible for user functions
>    * Convenient, USB thumb drive format
>    * I2C and ISSP support
>
>
> Anyone else think this is a bit odd?  But perhaps there is a market
> for "malfunction expansion" cards.  Who knew?
> 

On Thursday, in article
     <b7ef3986-5278-46f6-a603-dc8c7bdfb306@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
     gnuarm@gmail.com "rickman" wrote:

>I received an email advertisement from Avnet for the Cypress PSOC
>FirstTouch Starter kit.  I noticed an unusual feature...
>
>Key Features:
>
>    * Four embedded designs right out of the box
       ^^^^

Only FOUR, obviously won't do the number of last years systems I did then.
Perhaps the 'four' embedded systems are PDA, phone,.....

>    * No code, no debugging PSoC Express-based design platform

Always works first time even if you get your Volts, millivolts and
microvolts wrong? So why isn't the 'Telepathetic System Design' key
feature listed?

>    * 16-pin connection interface to plug the malfunction expansion
>card into target boards

Sems to describe most connection interfaces in existence, so should fit well.

>    * Pins accessible for user functions

What no soldering to pins immersed in epoxy resin? What is the world
coming to when we can use the pins to connect to our embedded system.

>    * Convenient, USB thumb drive format

Convenient to lose, break, file away in a safe place, even if I am a
two index finger typist.
 
>    * I2C and ISSP support
               ^^^^
               Incessantly
               Shoving
               Same
               Solution to
           any Problem

>Anyone else think this is a bit odd?  But perhaps there is a market
>for "malfunction expansion" cards.  Who knew?

Not odd just standard practise of droids who 'know' computers cut and
paste then write their own dross around it expecting the computer to
spell check and sort it all out for them. Monkeys comes to mind.

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rickman wrote:

> Anyone else think this is a bit odd?  But perhaps there is a market
> for "malfunction expansion" cards.  Who knew?

:)  Language Log blog has a name for this, though I forget what it is. 
  It's what happens when a spell-check program does the final draft.

	Cheers,	Mel.