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BarsMonster

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About BarsMonster

http://3.14.by/ http://zeptobars.com/

Hardware geek (FPGA's, STM32, AVR, crazy stuff from discrete components), love LED indicators (7-segment, alphanumeric). Going into ASIC design & manufacturing at the moment.

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    Comment #40843518

    No, it's field-programmable. But you can only do it once.

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    Comment #40843512

    Hehe, I was also tricked into thinking it's an 8051-compatible :-)

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    Comment #40387303

    Today we are used to luxury of fully integrated microcontrollers - all key components are conveniently integrated into single reliable part: non-volatile memory, SRAM, CPU core, PL…

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    Comment #39015166

    USB hub chip, USB SATA adapter - eating power for sure... SoC voltage scaling - need to be checked.

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    Comment #39015143

    Page-up/down keys... There are likely other ways )

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    Comment #39013498

    I was originally from Belarus, but as you mention - I am indeed in Zürich for some years. Still, I can assure you, 99% of people in Belarus do work on x86, and cutting edge x86 har…

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    Comment #39013463

    It's just a step. We are not there yet. But we have to continue one step at a time.

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    Comment #39013445

    Nearly all Linux packages you might want to install - work with nothing special required. Migration to ARM earlier this century made vast majority of open source software portable.…

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    Comment #39011138

    USB 3.0 can eat alot of power due to high speed, if it's always active...

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    Comment #39011092

    Do you imply that chip is fake and does not work? :-) Do you imply that there are no fake products on Amazon, which is also making chips (AWS Graviton)? Exactly the same issue: htt…

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    Comment #39010732

    Not (yet)

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    Comment #39010518

    Damn, best products are always in the future :-) Oasis looks very capable and juicy, looking forward to get my hands on it.

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    Comment #39010452

    My tests show it's slightly slower than Pi 4 and significantly faster than Pi 3 on CPU performance. 1T Coremark: Pi 3: 3504 Lichee: 6900 Pi 4: 7938

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    Comment #39010424

    In kernel config I see: CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y CONFIG_EFI=y If that's what identifies it

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    Comment #39010327

    https://mirror.iscas.ac.cn

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    Comment #39009746

    First tests of RISC-V laptop reveal a number of software and hardware issues, but show a path to freedom.

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    Comment #34214164

    Not... yet :-)

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    Comment #34214120

    I tried it at the beginning, but found it quite complicated. A the moment Hugin is used, which works nearly perfectly, especially on XY stage where you can disable frame rotation o…

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    Comment #34214019

    Power consumption and cost. 10 years on a battery is very hard to achieve for microcontroller. https://sorwatch.net shows that : with much more advanced microcontroller (much more …

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    Comment #34213991

    I've seen some made in Thailand. I would expect chip itself & quartz oscillator made in Japan.

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    Comment #34213983

    Yep, this is my understanding. Also, world practice shows that noone ever got into troubles for posting chip pictures, and in 10 years noone ever contacted me to remove any photos.…