| ▲ | exmadscientist 2 hours ago | |
> I don’t understand what point you’re trying to get across. My point is twofold: 1. There are many niches. Your main needs are not the same as my main needs. And my needs are poorly met by existing products, so I want to see something better. (And I do buy chips.) 2. All of this is way, way harder than it needs to be. It could be easy, but it isn't. Everything is possible right now. But I wasn't random when I used the dreaded A-word ("Arduino"). Arduino is a kind of horrible product that did not make anything possible and did not really invent anything. It did not make anything really hard suddenly become easy. Hard things before Arduino were still hard after Arduino. It "just" made some things that used to be medium-hard pains-in-the-butt actually really quick and easy (at a little backend complexity cost: now you've got the Arduino IDE around, hope it doesn't break!). It turns out that is very valuable. And is what I would like to see happen with FPGAs: make them easy to drop in instead of pains in the butt. All pieces for this exist, nothing is new tech, no major revolutions need to happen. "Just" ease of use. | ||
| ▲ | 15155 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> make them easy to drop in instead of pains in the butt How much easier does it need to be than putting down a single 1mm^2 LDO and a QFN IC? Is this really that difficult? | ||