On Thursday, February 04, 2016 09:21:22 AM Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > Aloha! > > Fredrik Thulin wrote: > > The FTDI chips we will use for USB<->UART communications on the > > Alpha boards can use an EEPROM chip to store settings. The settings > > are for example USB vendor/product ID numbers, but also a boatload of > > settings (see the datasheet for details). > > > > I would like to suggest adding an EEPROM to the schematics, but not > > populating it in the first manufacturing run. Does anyone see any > > downside to this? > > If config can be pushed from USB to EEPROM - no. > > AFAIK Pavel highlighted this problem when we discussed possible > interface chips and we really didn't want to have persistent state that > could be altered from the external interface. > > If you think it will not add any time in schematics and layout, add the > footprint. But otherwise I suggest not doing this. >
Ok, in the spirit of not doing anything unnecessary I'll scrap the idea. /Fredrik
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