Eben Upton the founder of the Raspberry Pi org worked for Broadcom so I guess he had an in into the company.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:30 PM Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Thanks for sharing the post about PI 4. It is an impressive piece of > hardware especially at that price point. > > The form factor is appealing. Buy a module with the desired engine and > high density connectors to drive a custom I/O card. Several vendors have > been doing this with micro and FPGA modules. > > I am also a fan of PCIe as a medium to move a great deal of data. > > My hat is off to the originators of PI. I am not sure how they got > Broadcom (notoriously difficult to work with) on board initially. > > Kevin > > On Monday, October 26, 2020, 7:11:40 PM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > HA! No sooner did I hit "send" than Newark sent me something about the RPI > 4 compute module announced a week ago (details here > <https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/> and here > <https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/product-briefs/2010016+Product+Brief+RPi+CM4.pdf> > ). > > -Pete > On 10/26/20 5:00 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > What about a cheap but capable board that could host Android and provide > a platform that could run many "smartphone apps" without the "smartphone > cost"? Some kind of AI acceleration would be a plus. > > -Pete > On 10/26/20 2:57 PM, Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed wrote: > > Triembed, > > From time to time interesting "mini" boards appear from maker groups, ham > operators, etc. to solve a particular problem (current sense, fpga > develoment, DDS, etc.) These devices are inexpensive ( $50 +/- to a couple > of hundred dollars) and offer more specific capabilities than the generic > OEM reference designs without man-years of development. They have enough > market interest (100's or maybe 1000's of units) to justify development > effort but not enough to attract the Chinese Walkers (the giant four-legged > assault vehicles from "Empire Strikes Back"). My apologies to Mr. Lucas. > > I am a HW guy. My wheelhouse is PCB's, FPGA, and firmware. My interest > far outstrips my ability on the host side (application development, device > drivers). I am looking for such ideas to implement as an open > collaboration of people having complementary skills. > > Thank you for taking the time to read. I return you to the other 500 > emails in your Inbox. :-) > > Sincerely, > Kevin Schilf > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > <[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > <[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J. Nobile (Software Engineer) [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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