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Broadcom would generally win on making hard to get EVKs. You can't even get data sheets unless you're a direct 100k unit type of customer. TI will sample to jus
by theatrus2 15y ago
Broadcom would generally win on making hard to get EVKs. You can't even get data sheets unless you're a direct 100k unit type of customer. TI will sample to just about anyone.
Note that the OMAPs are trickier as they expose their memory bus above the chip - the SDRAM and NAND are mounted on top of the main die as a stacked BGA. This isn't easy to work with.
- joezydeco 15y agoOMAPs are a godsend compared to Freescale i.MX. They still have pages and pages of design rules in their TRM about how to lay out the RAM busses. In fact I had Freescale recommend that I just cut-and-paste their reference design because they couldn't guarantee anyone else's design would ever work.