1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
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Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#2It seems awesome, but I'm having a problem with figuring out how can a "normal" person use it. How would YOU use it, reader of this comment?
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#3It seems awesome, but I'm having a problem with figuring out how can a "normal" person use it. How would YOU use it, reader of this comment?
From the datasheet:
Applications
• Battery charging and management
• Power supplies and power delivery
• Personal electronics
• Building security and fire safety
• Connected peripherals and printers
• Grid infrastructure
• Smart metering
• Communication modules
• Medical and healthcare
• Lighting
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#4It seems awesome, but I'm having a problem with figuring out how can a "normal" person use it. How would YOU use it, reader of this comment?
It's got a UART, it's got a PWM, it's really fast, and it's got masses of memory. I'd build a really tiny synthesizer, port my Juno 106 plugin's voice engine to it.
But like *really* tiny.
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#5It seems awesome, but I'm having a problem with figuring out how can a "normal" person use it. How would YOU use it, reader of this comment?
I have used a microcontroller from ST, very similar in size and also with a Cortex-M0+ core.
The applications required only I2C to communicate with a bunch of other integrated circuits and a few general-purpose pins.
An example of an application was a kind of hardware video converter, which received video input from a camera and then sent it wirelessly or on cables, where the MCU configured and reconfigured everything on the board, after reset or when certain buttons were pressed, and the configuration for some things, like a HDMI transmitter, was complicated, requiring the reading and the writing of many internal registers via I2C, so a MCU was really needed.
There are many types of complex integrated circuits that need to be configured with values written in internal registers to be usable, so, even if just for the initial configuration after reset, you need some small MCU that can write the registers via I2C or SPI. For this, the smaller the MCU is, so it will not take space on the PCB just for booting the other ICs, the better.
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#6Could you put a few thousand of these on a PCB and have a super duper tiny compute cluster?
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#7It's a bit low on RAM, otherwise it's similar to a game boy advance. Maybe after the GBA, GBA SP, and GBA micro, it's time for a GBA.. nano?
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#8Could you put a few thousand of these on a PCB and have a super duper tiny compute cluster?
You mean ... Like a Beowulf cluster of those?
Re: 1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller
#9It seems awesome, but I'm having a problem with figuring out how can a "normal" person use it. How would YOU use it, reader of this comment?
I'd buy it and put it in the Drawer of Dreams aka unfinished projects.