idrive hardware information
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I found this while browsing the net.
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.c...D=8246&pg=1
page two is quite interesting, SH4 processor, like my old Compaq Aero 8000 pda - that was cutting edge back in 2000.
Apologies if you have seen this before (couldn't find it via the search)
http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.c...D=8246&pg=1
page two is quite interesting, SH4 processor, like my old Compaq Aero 8000 pda - that was cutting edge back in 2000.
Apologies if you have seen this before (couldn't find it via the search)
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I know the article but most people here probably down.
I speak with Mike Levin at Immersion regularly. Immersion is doing some really interesting stuff (see the article in the recent Economist about haptic technology applications).
I speak with Mike Levin at Immersion regularly. Immersion is doing some really interesting stuff (see the article in the recent Economist about haptic technology applications).
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Originally Posted by JSpira' post='401555' date='Mar 11 2007, 03:37 PM
I know the article but most people here probably down.
I speak with Mike Levin at Immersion regularly. Immersion is doing some really interesting stuff (see the article in the recent Economist about haptic technology applications).
I speak with Mike Levin at Immersion regularly. Immersion is doing some really interesting stuff (see the article in the recent Economist about haptic technology applications).
16-bit Freelink MCU, wow, whole 16 bits! "[The iDrive] can frustrate some people who have been driving since age 15 and think they should be able to drive any car without having to take a class or read a manual," says Levin.
As a matter of fact, YES. Well designed technology does NOT need a manual. Requiring people to read manual means your application UI is not well designed. Does anyone need manual to use iPod? Or TV?
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Originally Posted by uglybear' post='401570' date='Mar 11 2007, 07:38 PM
OMG, as I suspected: 240MHz CPU. 1MBps CAN bandwidth - wow, that's fast. And next version will be 21-century scale breakthrough: whopping 10Mbps 16-bit Freelink MCU, wow, whole 16 bits!
"[The iDrive] can frustrate some people who have been driving since age 15 and think they should be able to drive any car without having to take a class or read a manual," says Levin.
As a matter of fact, YES. Well designed technology does NOT need a manual. Requiring people to read manual means your application UI is not well designed. Does anyone need manual to use iPod? Or TV?
16-bit Freelink MCU, wow, whole 16 bits! "[The iDrive] can frustrate some people who have been driving since age 15 and think they should be able to drive any car without having to take a class or read a manual," says Levin.
As a matter of fact, YES. Well designed technology does NOT need a manual. Requiring people to read manual means your application UI is not well designed. Does anyone need manual to use iPod? Or TV?
That having been said, the manual for a car with iDrive (and the use of iDrive) should not be any more complicated than any other car with similar functionality.
No car maker has a good interface (yet).
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