ESP8266 Community Forum

- Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:30 pm #425

TI has some of the best support available. It will be better than anything you'll get from a volunteer community. TI is paying skilled people to support their products and they have been doing it for a very long time.

I love TI, period. But people say that CC3000 was awful, buggy, and power-hungry. Now they came up with CC3100/CC3200. I read docs on CC3200 and it supports 2 SSL sockets. OMG, they're real engineering monsters! I even know what features CC3400 will offer - 4 SSL sockets! And their current BluetoothLE chip, CC2541, is built on 8051 core from 1980ies. So, I think they should get from under the rock and license something from Chinese folks, who do the real innovation now.

- Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:39 pm #426

I love TI, period. But people say that CC3000 was awful, buggy, and power-hungry. Now they came up with CC3100/CC3200. I read docs on CC3200 and it supports 2 SSL sockets. OMG, they're real engineering monsters! I even know what features CC3400 will offer - 4 SSL sockets! And their current BluetoothLE chip, CC2541, is built on 8051 core from 1980ies. So, I think they should get from under the rock and license something from Chinese folks, who do the real innovation now.

CC3000 is also a total security disaster

Read this thread about the CC3000 SmartConfig fiasco, it will make your day:
http://e2e.ti.com/support/wireless_conn ... 53463.aspx

- Thu Sep 11, 2014 3:56 am #439

TI has some of the best support available. It will be better than anything you'll get from a volunteer community. TI is paying skilled people to support their products and they have been doing it for a very long time.

I should clarify what I mean by support. It is not just troubleshooting. It is also all those open source libraries and reusable code that starts becoming available when the community is large and active. I remember what a huge task it was to implement a file system on MMC card using an AVR, then came the Arduino libraries and made it a child's play.

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- Thu Sep 11, 2014 8:09 am #448

$0.32 can you point out who these are? Always interested.

STM32F030F4P6

ST ran a huge campaign last year to promote their ARM portfolio - "32 bit at 32cents"

https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8#q ... 32%20cents