Re: Re: Is it advisable to use the RCM6700 in new designs?
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On Jan 27, 2015, at 1:47 PM, Graham Dollin [email protected] [rabbit-semi] wrote: > There is also the Pi and others, our concern is that these were established as training products to grow the market of future engineers and hence technology industry. > > We do not perceive them as commercial ten year platforms and may well morph a number of times in that period. > I had the same thoughts as Graham regarding the Pi and BeagleBone platforms. It seems that both are more of a "proof of concept" or hobbyist platform good for one-off or short-term production runs. I would be extremely surprised if five years from now (let alone 10) I can buy a BeagleBone Black or Raspberry Pi that is firmware compatible with the ones sold today. Then again, with embedded Linux development maybe those platforms can morph in that time frame and still work just as well as an embedded board that remains unchanged. My Magic 8-Ball is having trouble figuring that one out. -Tom