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BarsMonster
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About BarsMonster
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.…