looking for agnostic embedded forum
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Hey Yinz. (Yeah, from Pittsburgh)
Anyways, I've been focusing on embedded systems lately and have built up a collection of rants regarding the particular ecosystems I'm working under (STM32)...but that caused me to pose a larger question.
Are there any "very active" embedded system discussion forums that are agnositc from being sponsored by, or tied to, a particular companies products. Obviously my web search has been less than helpful, since I'm asking here. I'm looking for something less lurked by hobbiists and more by professionals, and where the sophistication level allows for discussions about hardware/software integration at the layer1-layer2 levels: hardware and basic ASIC programming: ie MCUs, RTOS, DSP, bare-metal programming...
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That's a tough one. In my experience, embedded tool chains tend to be idiosyncratic, creaky, and long detached from any upstream projects. Even from the same hardware vendor, each board comes with its own set of caveats.
Implementation agnostic discussions tend to be very theoretical.
Or, maybe I am unaware. Hopefully someone will enlighten me.
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@jeremy_k said in looking for agnostic embedded forum:
Implementation agnostic discussions tend to be very theoretical.
I would't say "theoretical". I mean, there are standard ways to do things in the embedded world, regardless of who the vendor is. But yes, the question is how much abstraction crap vendors layer over top of of the basic EE operations, and then call it their "innovation".
For ARM achitecture you're still always going to be doing bit logic operations on memory mapped registers.
