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As mentioned, this sort of board is produced to sell chips and serve as a basic reference design for customers and support engineers who have to debug issues.
by AlotOfReading 4y ago
As mentioned, this sort of board is produced to sell chips and serve as a basic reference design for customers and support engineers who have to debug issues.
As for what a typical robotics project needs, the Zynq line is far, far nicer to program and certify than the corresponding alternatives from NXP and especially TI (at least once you've automated away the pain of xilinix' toolchain), plus you get a decent FPGA on the side and ROS support. Laptops and cell phones won't do any of that and couldn't be certified, regardless.
So yes, this is very much something people will want.
- ethbr0 4y agoIs TI's toolchain still godawful?
- AlotOfReading 4y agoTI's stuff is very 'mature' at this point, so yeah. It's hard to call it a worse experience than something like Vivado (to the extent those can be compared), but TI's HW is also pretty terrible whereas you're getting decent stuff with Xilinx when they deign to fill orders.
- xodjmk 4y agoThis has always been the case in the past, but these boards are build around the SOM's. You can just buy these as off-the-shelf components (not counting lead-time issues..). This makes FPGAs much more accessible especially for smaller companies, or not so high-volume projects. You would still need to design something to connect the SOM to, but much simpler than the entire PCB.