Looks like a micro Lego. Hell, it is a micro Lego.
“It does in fact run Doom”, he said before he snorted a line of his new favorite drug - a dark grey line of Megaflops.
Wear your N95 around the next gen SoCs. We don’t know the effects of inhaling them (yet)
We don’t know the effects of inhaling them (yet)
How would you ever actually practically use this
Wrist watch.
fly-sized spy drone
In small things. Probably not very feasible for hobby projects unless you can get it soldered on when the PCB is built.
BGA, like in the photo, isn’t the only option. There are options only slightly larger with hand-solderable packages (if you’re good at soldering)
Same way you would in any other microcontroller application, but smaller, so the whole device can be smaller.
Get small enough and we can really have those bloodstream robots.
I make specialty vehicle electronics. My immediate thought was very small and cheap sensors. Similar to tire pressure monitoring but wired with CAN or something similar.
Maybe an actual useful smart ring?
see comment from @Lumberjacked (it is complicated !)
This is making the Republicans so nervous.
Not in the forehead! Not in the forehead!
What would you be referring to?
Nanobots of 90’s sci-fi, here we finally come!
I want those fuckers powering little submarines that fight cancer cells right now - but realistically speaking, these microcontrollers would need to be at least one order two order of magnitude smaller for that, no?
I can guarantee you they wouldn’t (solely) be used for pur benefit
Just reprogram viruses (like the microbe) instead. It’s easier.
Oh, absolutely. I just mean that we appear to be headed in that direction.
Just nuts that my 386 was to big to take on my pushy as a kid and now the same thing would get lost in my nose hairs
This article was written by someone who only knows buzz words. They said it’s “not just the silicone, but the entire microcontroller” what do they think processors have other than silicone?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but there is no silicone at all in microprocessors but silicon.
They’re referencing the package as a whole, plastic casing, gold internal wiring, etc. and the silicon die in the center of it all.
This still makes no sense, because the gold wiring is a huge cost. Why dafuq wouldn’t current manufacturing encourage smaller packages? And there has been a push to make things thinner since ad memorium, so why wouldn’t they have made the die slimmer?
32-bit just won’t die!
I was just thinking that. XD
I thought this headline was a Clinton joke.
Package options : 20-pin, 16-pin or 8-pin … but looking at Texas instrument website i did not find the pinout …
You found it 👍 This large document include pinout for the 20 pins package and it is somewhat complicated since each pin may have many uses … it would be hard to imagine (for me) what would the 8 pins package pinout would look like !
I couldn’t find the actual pinout for the 8 pin package, but the block diagrams make me think they’re power, ground, and 6 general purpose pins which can all be GPIO. Other functions, like ADC, SPI and I2C (all of which it has) will be secondary or tertiary functions on those same pins, selected in software.
So the actual answer you’re looking for is basically that all of the pins are everything, and the pinout is almost entirely software defined
