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- Jan 1, 1970
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Hi there everyone,
I want to apologize for the question that i am keeping as generic as
possible in order not to hurt the sensitivity of the very elite people
that are surely reading.
I am yet-another humble self-taught student of unix/asm/tcpip etc.,
with no experience in electronics, but with an idea to develop and
eventually, possibly, turn into a hardware device.
The technologies employed would be RF and USB. Basically the data (not
more than 512 Bytes) acquired via USB (maybe like a mass-storage key)
should be transmitted/received via RF to other similar devices, in a
form of 1-to-1 communication (not a meshed-type of network or anything
alike).
Since I know nothing about electronics design I started looking at
hardware right away and, after reading suggestions and hints all over
usenet and i found this chip to do (maybe?) everything i want (CC1010
from chipcom.com). It's a SOC, but I just oriented myself to it because
it's a bit "higher" level so it's more understandable/easy for me.
I started with opensource and then "corporate-I.T." taught me to find
"solutions" (like the SOC), but i can sense this is a wrong/expensive
approach especially in electronics. Though I dont want to ask the
question if a SoC is better than putting parts together, cause it will
turn probably into a flame (like "CISC vs. RISC" for CPUs). Everywhere
there are tradeoffs.
Thus...if anyone, along with his very-welcomed suggestions about
hardware, could point out the proper way to approach the development of
an electronic-design project, i would really appreciate it.
In short words...instead of looking at hardware first, I can even look
at RFCs...but it's impossible for me to choose the parts (PICs?
FPGAs?...) and arrange them together to make the technology that i want
to use.
I'd like to learn what's the proper way to go about this (by the
way...i can't go to .edu).
Thank you all for your patience and time.
Gio
I want to apologize for the question that i am keeping as generic as
possible in order not to hurt the sensitivity of the very elite people
that are surely reading.
I am yet-another humble self-taught student of unix/asm/tcpip etc.,
with no experience in electronics, but with an idea to develop and
eventually, possibly, turn into a hardware device.
The technologies employed would be RF and USB. Basically the data (not
more than 512 Bytes) acquired via USB (maybe like a mass-storage key)
should be transmitted/received via RF to other similar devices, in a
form of 1-to-1 communication (not a meshed-type of network or anything
alike).
Since I know nothing about electronics design I started looking at
hardware right away and, after reading suggestions and hints all over
usenet and i found this chip to do (maybe?) everything i want (CC1010
from chipcom.com). It's a SOC, but I just oriented myself to it because
it's a bit "higher" level so it's more understandable/easy for me.
I started with opensource and then "corporate-I.T." taught me to find
"solutions" (like the SOC), but i can sense this is a wrong/expensive
approach especially in electronics. Though I dont want to ask the
question if a SoC is better than putting parts together, cause it will
turn probably into a flame (like "CISC vs. RISC" for CPUs). Everywhere
there are tradeoffs.
Thus...if anyone, along with his very-welcomed suggestions about
hardware, could point out the proper way to approach the development of
an electronic-design project, i would really appreciate it.
In short words...instead of looking at hardware first, I can even look
at RFCs...but it's impossible for me to choose the parts (PICs?
FPGAs?...) and arrange them together to make the technology that i want
to use.
I'd like to learn what's the proper way to go about this (by the
way...i can't go to .edu).
Thank you all for your patience and time.
Gio
