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Development boards are not meant to be "funny", they're meant to expose all the features of a given CPU (or, more commonly SoC). This is for embedded users, wh
by unwind 11y ago
Development boards are not meant to be "funny", they're meant to expose all the features of a given CPU (or, more commonly SoC).
This is for embedded users, who typically add the processor chip to their own products, i.e. they are not intended to be end-user personal computers for general purpose use.
- protomyth 11y agoI know they are for embedded systems and sorry if "funny" offended you, but I keep hearing these companies tell me how good their ARM, MIPS, POWER are going to be in my server then they ship embedded specific boards. I can go buy a Intel or AMD board for a PC and write / port software. I'm still waiting for the same from other manufactures. This is one reason I'm really not sold on the ARM server boards since every company makes it a pain in the rear to buy one.
- monocasa 11y agoI mean, ATX (or other standards like MiniITX) boards are still really nice for initial embedded development. Even past that, it's really nice for a test farm for CI of embedded code. The weird boards are just them cheaping out. When they pass the savings onto you ala the Raspberry PI it's great; when they don't ala most FPGA dev boards, it really sucks. That's why ARM has the Intergrator/Versatile series of dev boards. Back in the day, MIPS had the Maltas.
- gherkin0 11y agoEven so, why couldn't they be made in some standard form factor? It seems like that would be easier, even for those who want to use the board for their intended use.