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Wish the standard wasn't such a massive clusterfuck. IIRC someone tried to implement it on plain microcontroller (back then there were no chips dedicated to do
by xani_ 4y ago
Wish the standard wasn't such a massive clusterfuck. IIRC someone tried to implement it on plain microcontroller (back then there were no chips dedicated to do the whole PD stuff) and it used 30k+ of memory which made using it for smaller devices... dubious.
Of course now we have chips that blackbox that complexity but the standard seemed to be way over-engineered from the start... for just essentially negotiating few values and a direction
- WanderPanda 4y agoTrue, if it is too general/flexible for future extension, devices might start only implementing part of it and we are getting limited by this blurry line of which device supports what
- xani_ 4y agoWe're already at that point, altho mostly because standard is so complex so many companies got it wrong. There is also a ton of optional stuff, which pretty much means every device needing above 5V needs to have buck/boost converter