AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothered to test

Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by majormajor on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:55PM (#25166595)

This sounds disparaging of the "makers" but if your options for a hobby project are:

1) glue shit together

2) read several thousand pages of documentation

who is going to choose the latter?

This is a market that's being poorly served (maybe it's not big enough to justify investment in developing non-shitty products for them?) but blaming the users seems distasteful.

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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by userbinator on Friday November 20, 2020 @09:10PM (#25167349)

SoC manuals are not novels, they are not meant to be read front-to-back. You read as much of the documentation as necessary.

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Re:AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can't be bothere... by nraynaud on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:50PM (#25167738)

It’s still a crap show. I’m working on a beaglebone, i just decided to stay in the PRU for now, because connecting a timer to a DMA to spit bit patterns to a GPIO port without using a processor would involve connecting sections of the manual that are thousands of pages apart.

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