NXP struggle update: I feel immortal today
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I broke through. Yesterday I was up against a huge number of unknowns in terms of developing against this new hardware I'm using - a 1GHz Cortex M monster by NXP. - I didn't know how to use any SPI buses aside from the first one (there are 6). - I didn't know their build system. - I didn't know their HAL packages. - Their IDE was failing on me - I didn't know how to develop raw against the chip on my board instead of developing against the board itself. (All that and I wasn't 100% sure my board even functioned well enough for the tests since it arrived with components visibly missing and the stock firmware unable to run due to a faulty or missing component) I had to tell my client that I likely wouldn't be ready with benchmark figures by next Tuesday's meeting. Today, I solved it all, and I got my figures (and they're reasonable, which means we can actually use this hardware) I'm stunned that I got through it all. I'm not really that clever, just persistent, so I figured it would take awhile. I should probably code something before this superpower wears off. :~
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I broke through. Yesterday I was up against a huge number of unknowns in terms of developing against this new hardware I'm using - a 1GHz Cortex M monster by NXP. - I didn't know how to use any SPI buses aside from the first one (there are 6). - I didn't know their build system. - I didn't know their HAL packages. - Their IDE was failing on me - I didn't know how to develop raw against the chip on my board instead of developing against the board itself. (All that and I wasn't 100% sure my board even functioned well enough for the tests since it arrived with components visibly missing and the stock firmware unable to run due to a faulty or missing component) I had to tell my client that I likely wouldn't be ready with benchmark figures by next Tuesday's meeting. Today, I solved it all, and I got my figures (and they're reasonable, which means we can actually use this hardware) I'm stunned that I got through it all. I'm not really that clever, just persistent, so I figured it would take awhile. I should probably code something before this superpower wears off. :~
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Congrats! What will you do for your next trick? :-D
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Congrats! What will you do for your next trick? :-D
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
What will you do for your next trick?
I think not even the witch knows it in advance :rolleyes: :-D
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I broke through. Yesterday I was up against a huge number of unknowns in terms of developing against this new hardware I'm using - a 1GHz Cortex M monster by NXP. - I didn't know how to use any SPI buses aside from the first one (there are 6). - I didn't know their build system. - I didn't know their HAL packages. - Their IDE was failing on me - I didn't know how to develop raw against the chip on my board instead of developing against the board itself. (All that and I wasn't 100% sure my board even functioned well enough for the tests since it arrived with components visibly missing and the stock firmware unable to run due to a faulty or missing component) I had to tell my client that I likely wouldn't be ready with benchmark figures by next Tuesday's meeting. Today, I solved it all, and I got my figures (and they're reasonable, which means we can actually use this hardware) I'm stunned that I got through it all. I'm not really that clever, just persistent, so I figured it would take awhile. I should probably code something before this superpower wears off. :~
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
I should probably code something before this superpower wears off.
No!! Step back from the keyboard. Never code while you have a superpower. Been there, done that. When you come back to it a few arbitrary-time-periods later, you won't understand it. You'll spend ages trying to figure out why it works perfectly and then more time rewriting it so that you'll understand it next time (which you probably won't).
Phil
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