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Olimex; Worst documentation?

Catwell
I do not believe I am in the minority in saying that the Olimex manuals and documentation are the worst ever encountered in the embedded development board world. If fact, I have several Olimex dev boards that are almost useless due to the datasheets lack of information. I only keep them around because they have PIC processors that I plan on pulling off at a later date.

Anyone with me on this? Perhaps we can change Olimex's apparent disdain for design engineers for the better. Perhaps a masterful USA division of Olimex can fix this issue.
Catwell
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    I'm all up for Vendor bashing when deserved, but I'm afraid I can't agree with you on this.

    I probably don't have access to as many dev kits as you do by the sounds of it, but both the

    STM32 and Pic32 dev kits have schematics available on their website, admittedly it would be nice to have it

    shipped with this in Dead Tree Format, but other than that they are at a better price point than some of

    their competition and their products does what it says on the tin.

     

     

    edit: And looking at the number of Olimex product over views there looks to be an abundance of App notes

    and various other documentation.

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    If you require PIC based development boards, it is better to procure them from 'Microchip Direct'. You will have all support from the Microchip site.
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    Not all Olimex boards is bad

     

    I have been woking with the following Olimex boards:

    AVR-CAN AT90CAN128 DEVELOPMENT BOARD

    SAM7-H256 HEADER DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR AT91SAM7S256 ARM7TDMI-S MICROCONTROLLER

    SAM7-EX256 DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR AT91SAM7X256 ARM7TDMI-S MICROCONTROLLER

     

    The one that gave me the most problems, was the SAM7-H256, where appox 15% of the pinout-connectors where turning the wrong way.

    This is not a good starter board, since it don't provide any IO that can be used for simple debug.

    So you would have to debug in both hardware and software, when seaching for error's :S