The RAM shortage: two levers embedded teams still control
LPDDR4 prices rose sevenfold in a year and Raspberry Pi raised prices again on 1 October. We can’t design around a market-wide rise, but we can decide how hard it hits a product.
The first solution is usually more RAM. It shouldn’t always be
When LaMetric SKY outgrew 128 MB of RAM, the obvious fix would have raised the BOM cost of every device. Profiling, software optimisation and zRAM kept the original hardware.
Every embedded product starts with an SD card. Most end with eMMC
Embedded Linux prototypes boot from SD cards; most production devices move to onboard eMMC. What differs, when SD is still fine, common failure modes, and a checklist and test plan before mass production.
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