On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 7:50 PM Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> wrote:
> > We need specialized SBCs for industrial and CNC systems obviously. It > would be nice to have a handful of well known brands to select from for > DIY projects. They could be functionally the same but use different CPU. > I would participate in related Kickstart assuming the design was good > and supported for at least 5 years ;-) > I can argue that we have this already. As for CPUs the embedded world seem to be moving to only two kinds ARM-A and ARM-M. The "A" type is in the Beagle Bone, Raspberry Pi, both Android and Apple cell phones and other places where an operating system is required. The "M" type have almost taken over the embedded world. Yes there are others but they are either minor or legacy. All of these "A" and "M" SBCs have pins, typically at 0.1 inch spacing and the pins have standardized names and functions across all the boards. If you look there are only about a half dozen pin type in common use and only a dozen that a designer needs to know abut. The pins types include Analog in, PWM, digital out, Power, ground, USART, I2C. SPI, So today we have mostly only a couple CPU families (that anyone would put in a new design) and a dozen or two pin types and 100+ different word shapes. My opinion is that things have never been better, We have all the cheap and easy to use computing hardware we need. The problem is software. Software is a much harder problem. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
