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What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits?

rscasny

I was asked this question the other day. What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits? On impulse, I would venture to say the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone. I'm sure there are others. Sensor kits, FPGA kits, Motor Contr0ol kits, Power kits, come to mind, but I'm not sure which ones element14 would consider "popular."

So, I figured I would ask you.  What are your most popular kits?  If you have the time, please leave a comment below. 

Thanks

Randall Scasny

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  • I'm not sure I can put my finger on a "most popular" as it all depends on what I'm trying to achieve.

    TI's MSP430 line got me into microcontrollers so I'll always have a soft spot for those. I dipped into Nordic's nRF series for work - I was creating a stand-in for another company's hardware and decided to use the same base for my mock device. I've been a bit on-and-off with those but might well pick that as a go-to if I needed a microcontroller for a project, Either that or a Pico.

    The Raspberry Pi is always good if you need an SBC to run Linux. My team at work are mostly Microsoft based, but .NET Core runs really well on a Pi. However, having to design some new hardware when the Pi was hard to get meant the BeagleBone Black got the job. They're great in certain situations too. (If you're a golf fan and you watched the Ryder Cup recently, it was some BeagleBones that the marshalls were using to switch the enormous on-course video screens between the scoreboard and TV feed.)

    Whilst I was getting into FPGAs, the Xilinx (now AMD) range were great.

    None of these would be good if you picked the wrong one for the job. A microcontroller, SBC and FPGA are all so different.

  • in reply to Fred27

    I miss content and challenges with TI development boards on element14. I also got into modern microcontrollers with a TI development board, the ARM Cortex-M4F Based MCU TM4C123G LaunchPad Evaluation Kit with which I took the course UT.6.02x Embedded Systems - Shape the World by Jonathan Valvano and Ramesh Yerraballi: https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~valvano/Volume1/E-Book/

    This was my final project:

    I then followed the TI Robotics Systems Learning Kit (TI-RSLK) courses with the TI MSP432 LaunchPad: https://university.ti.com/en/faculty/ti-robotics-system-learning-kit/ti-robotics-system-learning-kit/curriculum-design-launch

    I also have several TI MSP430G2553 LaunchPad from when my eldest daughter was studying digital electronics with the MSP430 in PDIP package.

    I have left these development boards aside because I follow what element14 sells. Now my interest is focused on FPGAs and Arduinos.

  • in reply to javagoza

    Yes. i'm a TI fanboy. They virtually retreated from all communities

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