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Printed Circuit Board Porn? What Were The Nokia Engineers Thinking?

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madsbarnkob:


Two "HEPPU" (ordinary guy) ICs after the ADC frontend, feeds data to the "PIMU" (single women below 30 year old) IC. Loosely translated with help from Fins :)

Nokia engineers likes to nickname their ICs with Finnish names or slang. These ICs comes from the teardown of a cellular base station amplifier for 3G mobile phone networks, the Nokia Siemens Networks 3G Flexi FRGL 2x50W 1800 MHz: https://kaizerpowerelectronics.dk/teardown/nokia-siemens-3g-flexi-2100mhz-50w-frgl-amplifier-teardown/

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Nominal Animal:
Considering the language and culture nuances, translating to English as used in American comedies in 1990-2010, "heppu" ≡ "dude" and "pimu" ≡ "chick", with almost perfect mapping of subtext and connotations.

SiliconWizard:
Ok cool. =)
It's actually a pretty common thing to give ASICs nicknames.
So yeah, the Amiga had Paula, Fat Agnus, ... what where they thinking at Commodore? :-DD
Or is it because the nicknames are "chick" and "dude" instead of first names or very funky names (you realize what a "fat agnus" would be? :-DD )

Not sure that is worth even talking about, but hey. Who am I to judge. :horse:

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