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Quoting:

"For more than 30 years, our design lab has seen that no IC greater than 16 pins (except memory) has worked according to its documentation"

That matches the experience of every single embedded engineer I have ever known.



Oh yes, a thousand times Yes. The entire job of embedded engineers is to work around flaws in large SOC/SOM designs. The errata sheets are many pages of one-line descriptions. The tools barely work, any provided 'drivers' from the manufacturer are little more than proof-of-concept, and none of the advanced features work well/at all.


Yep, and that documentation is often bad. We create our own (currently we are working with some obscure mcu) but cannot share because NDAs etc with the chip manufacturer. And so the docs remain crap and the trial and error continues.




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