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High Speed Data Acquisition over HDMI
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoThis is so fucking sweet as cool & great. It's f-ing wild these days that there are huge huge throughout monster chips of various sorts. But the consumer thing that is consistently high bandwidth is display output & everything else gets shorted. Finding super cheap (<$10) HDMI to USB adapter chip is a glorious way to take the (HDMI) interface that by convention is expected & necessary even on cheap cheap cheap chips & using that for far more glorious purposes. I'm so so so disappointed by today. Chips are fucking terrible. Cortex A53 is still the dominant thing. Some A7 and A55 on SBC (also reaching near a decade old) just a narrow narrow range, few hopes in evolution. On fpga there are some interesting new emergents but again any decent serdes is highly restricted. The low end battle feels forever stalled out. Trying to use HDMI (or ideally even better dispalyport which actually genuinely supports sideways use in cool ways) feels like a way to take the extremely meanspirited consumerized marketplace of chip & liberate them from theow-bandwidth use cases they have been cruelly imprisoned in on. We could be doing so much better; the multicore war has gotten somewhere but trying to make the throughput war show progress has been much harder. This is an interesting good opener. For some much lower classes of devices. Hell yeah.