Olimex; Worst documentation?

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.

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0 Former Member over 15 years ago

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
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0 Former Member over 15 years ago

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
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