Covering up mistakes by making a matter personal

Those French chip designers tried to blame their inability to make the features that they initially said worked perfectly function in real silicon and on a circuit board on our lack of understanding of the ARM architecture. We'd already used ARM cores at that time, and probably understood SDRAM and signal integrity matters better than they did. I admit that it was my mistake assuming that they were as smart as we, on average, are.

I dislike being lied-to as well. I take it personally, when a representative of a supplier's engineering team lies to me directly, and find it stupid of them to do so when there's ample physical evidence that what they say is a bald-faced lie.

RE