[TriEmbed] Triembed - Open Proposal

[Carl Nobile]

Eben Upton the founder of the Raspberry Pi org worked for Broadcom so I
guess he had an in into the company.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:30 PM Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Thanks for sharing the post about PI 4.  It is an impressive piece of
> hardware especially at that price point.
>
> The form factor is appealing.  Buy a module with the desired engine and
> high density connectors to drive a custom I/O card.  Several vendors have
> been doing this with micro and FPGA modules.
>
> I am also a fan of PCIe as a medium to move a great deal of data.
>
> My hat is off to the originators of PI.  I am not sure how they got
> Broadcom (notoriously difficult to work with) on board initially.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Monday, October 26, 2020, 7:11:40 PM EDT, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <
> triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
>
> HA! No sooner did I hit "send" than Newark sent me something about the RPI
> 4 compute module announced a week ago (details here
> <https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-compute-module-4/> and here
> <https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/product-briefs/2010016+Product+Brief+RPi+CM4.pdf>
> ).
>
> -Pete
> On 10/26/20 5:00 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
>   What about a cheap but capable board that could host Android and provide
> a platform that could run many "smartphone apps" without the "smartphone
> cost"? Some kind of AI acceleration would be a plus.
>
> -Pete
> On 10/26/20 2:57 PM, Kevin Schilf via TriEmbed wrote:
>
> Triembed,
>
> From time to time interesting "mini" boards appear from maker groups, ham
> operators, etc. to solve a particular problem (current sense, fpga
> develoment, DDS, etc.)  These devices are inexpensive ( $50 +/- to a couple
> of hundred dollars) and offer more specific capabilities than the generic
> OEM reference designs without man-years of development.  They have enough
> market interest (100's or maybe 1000's of units) to justify development
> effort but not enough to attract the Chinese Walkers (the giant four-legged
> assault vehicles from "Empire Strikes Back").  My apologies to Mr. Lucas.
>
> I am a HW guy.  My wheelhouse is PCB's, FPGA, and firmware.  My interest
> far outstrips my ability on the host side (application development, device
> drivers).  I am looking for such ideas to implement as an open
> collaboration of people having complementary skills.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read.  I return you to the other 500
> emails in your Inbox.  :-)
>
> Sincerely,
> Kevin Schilf
> kschilf at yahoo.com
>
>
>
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