In a drone, how much the controllers eat is straight up irrelevant. Because you already have to keep 20A worth of motors powered or die trying. You aren't going to make a dent in your power problems by going from 40mA to 1mA on the flight controller MCU.
Lots and lots of useful MCUs that are out there in the real world don't include these functions on-die. That's OK, isn't it?
No. It's embedded, and chips live and die by integration. You either get really good at being an easy to develop general purpose jack of all trades solution, or you get into a lucrative niche and design everything for the niche.
This appears to do neither. It's a specialized piece, but it's not specialized enough. It suggests some very specific applications, but doesn't deliver on being suited to them. Tech demo material.
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In a drone, how much the controllers eat is straight up irrelevant. Because you already have to keep 20A worth of motors powered or die trying. You aren't going to make a dent in your power problems by going from 40mA to 1mA on the flight controller MCU.
No. It's embedded, and chips live and die by integration. You either get really good at being an easy to develop general purpose jack of all trades solution, or you get into a lucrative niche and design everything for the niche.
This appears to do neither. It's a specialized piece, but it's not specialized enough. It suggests some very specific applications, but doesn't deliver on being suited to them. Tech demo material.