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POLL For a Recent Roadtest You Were Considering, What Primary Factor Swayed You NOT to Apply for the Roadtest?

rscasny

If you have the time, please vote in my poll. Thanks.

  • in reply to michaelkellett

    Michael, 

    Thanks for responding. Other members have told me this in the past. The product needs to be something they need after the roadtest. I think about it more so now than in the past. I see it as one of the leading causes people aren't applying. Looks like I have to do more checking with members before the roadtest is booked. Thanks.

  • I voted for having no real use for the product.  Because I have no use for it I am not interested in devoting a lot of time to it and would be unlikely to to a good Roadtest.

    This will happen a lot because the RoadTests cover a wide range of equipment and devices, so it's not in any way a fault of the programme.

    For example, I haven't applied for the R & S power supply RoadTest which is currently ongoing - it's a nice enough power supply (although expensive) but the voltage and current range it covers just isn't appropriate to any current projects. So to do a decent test I would be using time for the purpose of the test itself which just isn't a cost effective thing to do.

    MK

  • in reply to dougw

    Xilinx Vivado is offered in free edition which works well. Development for PolarFire is done in Libero SoC and Microchip last year changed licensing policy, so you can obtail silver license also for free.

    Licences are not the issue in FPGA world anymore.

  • I like the idea of road testing something like a PolarFire FPGS, but the learning curve for such a complex product is probably too long for a road test schedule.

    Xilinx (Vivado) is too expensive to justify buying for a road test, or for the number of FPGA projects I would use it for.

    Going through a huge learning curve with a temporary software license for something you don't end up owning is not usually time well spent.

  • Hi Randall - the reason listed "I'm involved in other activities on element14 (Design challenges, Project14, etc.) that are occupying my time." If the Road Test is cool enough I will make time somehow. 

    Primarily for me, right now, the Road Test boards being offered require an experienced embedded system or a specialist. I'm an ordinary Joe and would be in the deep water end of the pool if selected, no need to apply.

    The corollary to that Road Test thought, if the Road Test involves an expensive piece of high end gear, the high end talent applies to the Road Test. I recognize the A players are applying, I shy away from applying to these, or may apply and put little effort into the application.