> The source article highlights the so-called “E-Axle” used by BYD, which is comprised of eight different components.
> It includes not only the motor, inverter, transmission and controller but also the onboard AC charger, the DC-to-DC converter and the battery monitoring system (BMS).
Sounds like that if one of those ever needs replacement you might as well just replace the whole car.
Not really a successor, they’re different chip lines (more I/O, video engine, more hardware crypto stuff but no wireless capabilities we all know and love from Espressif)
Hmm, I had missed that. Perhaps the C line (e.g. C6) would be more suited.
Espressif CEO expressed commitment to RISC-V (now already years ago) and they've stopped releasing new chips with tensilica ISA.
As the ecosystem, toolchains and such aren't comparable to that of RISC-V and this gap will only widen, they really shouldn't be selected for new designs.
C line isn’t also very comparable: single (C-series) vs dual core (S3), and S3 has USB-OTG capabilities whereas C6 only has USB-JTAG.
Tensilica ESPs aren’t formally in NRND stage as of right now, for some usages they’re still the only choice, even if RISC-V is clearly the path forward.
Asus did that in 2011 with the PadFone, it was an Android mobile phone that you could plug into the provided tabled and then plug a keyboard into that.
Those were also full open source until some time ago, then they switched to source-available for the userland with a closed source kernel to prevent modifications allowing cheating on exams.
It’s sad they had to take away freedom from the majority of users just to prevent a minority cheating.
That probably explains the issues I’m having sometimes when pulling images from Elastic registry on hetzner boxes. At least now I know the reason behind that
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