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I almost quit my day job in 2020 building a product based on Raspberry Pi Compute module 4, it has great form factor. But I didn’t! And it was another proof, th
by lnsru 4y ago
I almost quit my day job in 2020 building a product based on Raspberry Pi Compute module 4, it has great form factor. But I didn’t! And it was another proof, that playing safe is not the worst way to do things.
What’s alternative!? As an electrical engineer I designed a Spartan 7 FPGA based board with same form factor as compute module 4 for replacement in my system. Nowadays Spartan 7 chips are available again at Mouser and Digikey.
I ready don’t need a Raspberry Pi with A.I. chip, because I can’t buy even a regular one.
- zokier 4y agoArm based system-on-modules in general are widely available from all sorts of vendors, especially for commercial/industrial use. Something like Spartan usually is in a different league, being a fpga instead of plain soc
- lnsru 4y agoCould you, please, recommend something? I heard, the NXP i.MX 8 series should be good.