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skeezyboyyesterday at 11:08 AM2 repliesview on HN

> pick whichever chip is the most popular and spend the resources to reverse engineer it

is this even doable?


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numpad0yesterday at 5:40 PM

Not even hypothetical. See ATmega328P. It has no business being an actively supplied chip if we were to only care about technological supremacy of architectures and/or chip construction. Or countless "e8051" chips based on Intel 8051 microcontroller being https://xkcd.com/2347/ of USB.

FirmwareBurneryesterday at 2:11 PM

Doable yes. Economical no.

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