The days of fitting an instruction set on a page or two are long
gone.
On Mon, 2024-08-12 at 12:04 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
The days of fitting an instruction set on a page or two are long
gone.
The RISCV instruction set for the cores in the Pico is just 137. It's
all in a table on one page in the rp2350 datasheet.
These days, when you've got a 1K+ page manual you know it's the actual manual. If it's 10 pages it's just a 'product brief' that shows some basic
information about the chip but not nearly enough to program it (contact the OEM and they'll make you sign an NDA for the actual details, and maybe only if you're going to buy a million units).
Most of the time you can ignore huge chunks of the manual - if you never use the CAN bus transceiver, skip that section. But better to have the information there if you need it.
Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
In comp.sys.raspberry-pi Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:07:59 -0700
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
The RP2350 data sheet is 1347 pages!
The days of fitting an instruction set on a page or two are long
gone.
These days, when you've got a 1K+ page manual you know it's the actual
manual. If it's 10 pages it's just a 'product brief' that shows some basic >> information about the chip but not nearly enough to program it (contact the >> OEM and they'll make you sign an NDA for the actual details, and maybe only >> if you're going to buy a million units).
Most of the time you can ignore huge chunks of the manual - if you never use >> the CAN bus transceiver, skip that section. But better to have the
information there if you need it.
Theo
As long as the silicon errata sheet isn’t 1000 pages!
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