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What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512

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·July 4, 2025
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anitil

I'm really enjoying this series, and this one is a good example of how working with hardware can be really difficult as manufacturers aren't always fully open (or honest) about device's capabilities. But typically you don't find that out until you're already a long way through bring-up.

This was an impressive amount of research to get what he wanted out of the device!

Xss3

The same is common in software. A real nightmare for me was a client insisting their entire library was single threaded only to discover one small but aspect wasn't deep into development and debugging. Had to refactor a huge chunk of the project.

RainyDayTmrw

In perhaps a feat of nominative determinism, both the website and the feature are named serdes.

kmeisthax

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kragen

This is amazing.

Oh, no wonder this is so comprehensive and fearless. It's Andrew Zonenberg.