Re: [GOLF-TEE] Re: Fwd: BPSK on ax5043 Service Request #242527
A big concern regarding the ax5043 is that it requires the use of a proprietary Windows application to configure. If Onsemi stops maintaining that configuration program, we're screwed (unless we stick with configurations we've already generated).
Rich
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 10:22 AM Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com wrote:
On 10/6/22 08:46, Eric Skoog wrote:
BTW Rich - I saw in the chat room the comment you made about the AX5243 ONSEMI chip also being EOL. That's an interesting chip as well...........did you note that Digikey has over 38,000 of those in stock? I wonder how compatible your AX5043 code would be with those
chips?
The AX5243 and AX5043 are essentially identical, but the former does not have the single-ended output (in addition to the normal differential output). We use both outputs on the RT-IHU right now (SE is 70cm down, Diff is 2m up). Going with the '5243 means we'd have to rethink the Cmd/Tlm paradigm between processors -- and, if one '5243 failed, we'd lose either TX or RX with no backup.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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Setting up a Windows VM (I do that a lot) is one way to freeze a working version for quite a while.
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On Oct 6, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Rich Gopstein rich@ourowndomain.com wrote:
A big concern regarding the ax5043 is that it requires the use of a proprietary Windows application to configure. If Onsemi stops maintaining that configuration program, we're screwed (unless we stick with configurations we've already generated).
Rich
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 10:22 AM Zach Metzinger <zmetzing@pobox.commailto:zmetzing@pobox.com> wrote: On 10/6/22 08:46, Eric Skoog wrote:
BTW Rich - I saw in the chat room the comment you made about the AX5243 ONSEMI chip also being EOL. That's an interesting chip as well...........did you note that Digikey has over 38,000 of those in stock? I wonder how compatible your AX5043 code would be with those chips?
The AX5243 and AX5043 are essentially identical, but the former does not have the single-ended output (in addition to the normal differential output). We use both outputs on the RT-IHU right now (SE is 70cm down, Diff is 2m up). Going with the '5243 means we'd have to rethink the Cmd/Tlm paradigm between processors -- and, if one '5243 failed, we'd lose either TX or RX with no backup.
--- Zach N0ZGO
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On Oct 6, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Rich Gopstein rich@ourowndomain.com wrote: A big concern regarding the ax5043 is that it requires the use of a proprietary Windows application to configure. If Onsemi stops maintaining that configuration program, we're screwed (unless we stick with configurations we've already generated).
On 10/6/22 11:34, Jonathan Brandenburg (KF5IDY) via Golft wrote:
Setting up a Windows VM (I do that a lot) is one way to freeze a working version for quite a while.
I agree with Jonathan: Is there a reason to think they'd update the configuration utility at this late in the game?
--- Zach N0ZGO
I'm not worried that they'd update it. I was worried that they wouldn't update it and it would eventually stop working with newer versions of Windows.
So keeping a VM around with the software on it would be a good idea.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022, 3:00 PM Zach Metzinger zmetzing@pobox.com wrote:
On Oct 6, 2022, at 11:20 AM, Rich Gopstein rich@ourowndomain.com wrote: A big concern regarding the ax5043 is that it requires the use of a proprietary Windows application to configure. If Onsemi stops maintaining that configuration program, we're screwed (unless we stick with configurations we've already generated).
On 10/6/22 11:34, Jonathan Brandenburg (KF5IDY) via Golft wrote:
Setting up a Windows VM (I do that a lot) is one way to freeze a working version for quite a while.
I agree with Jonathan: Is there a reason to think they'd update the configuration utility at this late in the game?
--- Zach N0ZGO
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