Re: Is embedded on the cheap possible?

On Jul 27, 7:38 pm, Jack Klein <jackkl...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:50:52 -0000, speedplane
<michael.san...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.arch.embedded:

I find that a lot of posts on this embedded group revolve around
finding cheap or free tools to build embedded devices. However, in my
experience, I've found that productizing real embedded products is

Developers don't "productize". Marketing dweebs do.

anything but cheap. It takes many thousands of dollars to build good
hardware, program that hardware, and debug it. You need all sorts of
gear from power supplies and logic analyzers to probes and pricey
software.

My question is, has anyone successfully deployed an embedded system
which was built cheaply? Is it possible to take GCC, linux, and a
hundred dollar wiggler to build and deploy an embedded system?

Thanks!

Yes, it is still possible to develop cheap embedded systems, although
I don't know that gcc and Linux is necessarily the cheap route.

It is even possible to be financially successful selling them,
generally in limited volumes for specialized niche markets.

But it is by no means easy, and the methods don't scale to volume
products, or anything sold to the general public where all sorts of
legal issues are involved.

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When I say productize, I really mean removing all of the bugs.

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