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Is it common for microcontrollers to lack comprehensive documentation, or is it just espressif?
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Is it common for microcontrollers to lack comprehensive documentation, or is it just espressif?
My experience with microcontrollers is not up to date. Most of the stuff I did was 15 years ago.I remember, Espressif really disrupted the market. Things changed already with Advent of Arduino. Before that people wrote a lot of asm code inline and MCUs particularly from microchip had really good documentations (sure some quirks and errata always appeared later, but as I remember they found their ways into data sheets…
They still are.
No vendor until now was able to push out microcontrollers with a solid Wifi integration. Sometimes you can find weird 2-chip-solutions.
I still wonder why ST doesn't bring one. That device would be a multi-billion-business.
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My experience with microcontrollers is not up to date. Most of the stuff I did was 15 years ago.I remember, Espressif really disrupted the market. Things changed already with Advent of Arduino. Before that people wrote a lot of asm code inline and MCUs particularly from microchip had really good documentations (sure some quirks and errata always appeared later, but as I remember they found their ways into data sheets…
> Most of the stuff I did was 15 years ago.I remember, Espressif really disrupted the market. They still are. No vendor until now was able to push out microcontrollers with a solid Wifi integration. Sometimes you can find weird 2-chip-solutions. I still wonder why ST doesn't bring one. That device would be a multi-billion-business.
I believe this is just down to USB CDC, where baudrate doesn’t affect the USB transfer speed.
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> Most of the stuff I did was 15 years ago.I remember, Espressif really disrupted the market. They still are. No vendor until now was able to push out microcontrollers with a solid Wifi integration. Sometimes you can find weird 2-chip-solutions. I still wonder why ST doesn't bring one. That device would be a multi-billion-business.
ST are overpriced, no self respecting internet of shit vendor would be caught dead using their MCUs when cheap clones exist.
Maybe some basic stuff like usart, i2c works fine. But the the deeper you dig into the specialties the more you will have problems.
And STM32s and expensive? Maybe if you buy them from Digikey or Mouser. With the right distributor they are dirt cheap.
The baud rate is just sent to the USB device, so that if you were making a real USB-serial adapter, you'd know how fast to go :)
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ST are overpriced, no self respecting internet of shit vendor would be caught dead using their MCUs when cheap clones exist.
Most clones aren't even close compatible to their originals. Maybe some basic stuff like usart, i2c works fine. But the the deeper you dig into the specialties the more you will have problems. And STM32s and expensive? Maybe if you buy them from Digikey or Mouser. With the right distributor they are dirt cheap.
If the same function is used on a physical serial port (of which there are a few on ESP32 iirc) the baudrate argument will be used to set the baudrate setting in the peripheral by the library.
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Most clones aren't even close compatible to their originals. Maybe some basic stuff like usart, i2c works fine. But the the deeper you dig into the specialties the more you will have problems. And STM32s and expensive? Maybe if you buy them from Digikey or Mouser. With the right distributor they are dirt cheap.
Lots of horror stories from people who had to respin their boards because you couldn't buy ST at any price when they redirected all their output to car manufacturers during the chip shortage. They may be cheaper now but vendor lock-in never helped anyone (except that vendor) in the long run. Oh, and most Chinese wifi gadgets use Beken nowadays because it's even cheaper than Espressif, what are the chances of them swi…
Porting stuff to another microcontroller would be easy as we are not using too proprietary features... as long the uC has SPI/I2C and a bunch of timers the embedded developers will be happy. Thanks to Zephyr.