A 10k resistor does not fix the input leakage (or even unlatch the pin, in the case of connecting something open drain). The simplest and reliable option to achieve a low leakage input pin, should you need one, is probably a buffer. Those cost more than a tenth of a cent.Never saw the 10 million figure. We can't see how many our clients sell, but our estimate was 25-30k units per annum, so obviously a lot of other people adopted using it which is good. Though some may have had no choice with STM having nothing to sell back then. Hopefully RPL's next product will use the M85 core. Put that with just some RAM, a load of PIOs and nothing else would be a monster.A quarter of a million doesn't seem like a whole lot, but of course you want to make that back as well as a company. Apparently the RP2040 had sold over 10 million units by the start of 2023, and the 2350 certainly has the potential to sell way, way more due to it being more attractive to industrial users. Might not be worth leaving in bugs that make it less attractive and might hinder adoption, rightfully or not, but that's RPI's decision to make.
This RP235x problem won't be an issue for our designs. We've got three products ready to go to prototype - just need RP2354s at JLCPCB !
I suspect every other commercial user will be similar - a 10k resistor costs a tenth of a cent, every month's delay in launching a product costs many thousands. We lost a fortune on a product using CM4s when we couldn't get a guaranteed supply of them. By the time they were available it was too late.
Note to RPL : Offering ten samples to commercial design houses is missing the point - they need to be in reels at the assembly plants. We, and most other design houses I know of, don't have ovens and so on.
Anyway, the 10 million figure was from here: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspb ... on-rp2040s
And reading it a bit more carefully it seems that the have produced 10 million, not necessarily sold them. I haven't watched the video.
Edit: Nevermind, they just have bought a bunch of wafers, no clue how much it has sold.
Statistics: Posted by Transonic — Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:46 pm