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how is this different from TI's am3xx used in its beagle series boards? For me it's either RPi's CM4 or Beagle modules these days.

AlotOfReading 3y ago
As far as I'm aware, only the AM6x will has support for TSN stuff, not the AM3x. Second, you don't have to deal with TI's crappy tooling or TI themselves. I vote against TI parts every chance I get because it's almost universally a mistake everyone comes to regret.
- synergy20 3y ago
  I used beaglebone(also i.mx6 from NXP, thinking about using CM4 for next projects) to make products and they're robust to me, what's the real problem with TI? admittedly I have not used beagle boards to make products in the past few years but the past experience was good, is it because its software are now out of date and unmaintained?
  - AlotOfReading 3y ago
    TI processors tend to have weird misbehaviors and the support is far worse than competitors like NXP. Plus, their driver quality is usually low, and actually using driver or bsp code is difficult in a consistent, automatic way. You want to regularly upgrade drivers/bsps that you're carrying a couple dozen unofficial patches on top of. The tooling available forces you to do that semi-manually, which also means people make mistakes and introduce unnecessary regressions. Even when their stuff works, I've had too many instances where the support resolution was "ensure you're doing everything in this 1,500 item checklist" (not exaggerating).
    - synergy20 3y ago
      very helpful, I probably will stick with NXP chips then(its software seems updated fairly often and its chips are usually solid) instead of TI's, after all TI pretty much left the ARM chip space comparing to other larger ARM chip vendors. For NXP's imx6/7/8 I wish there were similar open source communities as RPi and Beagle board have, there are a few commercial i.mx vendors but not a well known open one for NXP, which is unfortunate.
synergy20 3y ago
even questions like this got downvoted at HN, maybe it's not encouraging or hurting your heart? This is just a normal practical question from an engineer, if you still sense that it hurts your feelings, I'm speechless. I actually looked up this forthcoming chip and wondering if I should add it to my to-use list down the road, thus the question.

AlotOfReading 3y ago

As far as I'm aware, only the AM6x will has support for TSN stuff, not the AM3x. Second, you don't have to deal with TI's crappy tooling or TI themselves. I vote against TI parts every chance I get because it's almost universally a mistake everyone comes to regret.

synergy20 3y ago
I used beaglebone(also i.mx6 from NXP, thinking about using CM4 for next projects) to make products and they're robust to me, what's the real problem with TI? admittedly I have not used beagle boards to make products in the past few years but the past experience was good, is it because its software are now out of date and unmaintained?
- AlotOfReading 3y ago
  TI processors tend to have weird misbehaviors and the support is far worse than competitors like NXP. Plus, their driver quality is usually low, and actually using driver or bsp code is difficult in a consistent, automatic way. You want to regularly upgrade drivers/bsps that you're carrying a couple dozen unofficial patches on top of. The tooling available forces you to do that semi-manually, which also means people make mistakes and introduce unnecessary regressions. Even when their stuff works, I've had too many instances where the support resolution was "ensure you're doing everything in this 1,500 item checklist" (not exaggerating).
  - synergy20 3y ago
    very helpful, I probably will stick with NXP chips then(its software seems updated fairly often and its chips are usually solid) instead of TI's, after all TI pretty much left the ARM chip space comparing to other larger ARM chip vendors. For NXP's imx6/7/8 I wish there were similar open source communities as RPi and Beagle board have, there are a few commercial i.mx vendors but not a well known open one for NXP, which is unfortunate.

synergy20 3y ago

even questions like this got downvoted at HN, maybe it's not encouraging or hurting your heart? This is just a normal practical question from an engineer, if you still sense that it hurts your feelings, I'm speechless. I actually looked up this forthcoming chip and wondering if I should add it to my to-use list down the road, thus the question.