Am I the only one struggeling or am I the only one using SPC?
Hi everyone!
My disappointment has reached the level where I write about it. Mostly to find a way to navigate the ecosystem or to find an alternative.
My initial idea was to move from Atmel 8-bits towards something more powerful. Usecase is automotive, where normal STMs are not at home. But..there was this new thing: SPC5.
It took me days to figure out that the install videos where outdated and SPC5 Studio is not needed for Auto dev kit anymore. Several installations later I was able to click my way half through it but was totally stuck with UDE and the concept of it being something 3rd party that was no part of the IDE.
Entering the pitfalls of eclipse (man what is this? Its awfully cluttered, buggy and inconvenient) I spend a few days learning that the pinmap editor must be closed in order to generate proper code, that the dark mode does not work -no matter what I try. The documentation is everywhere and nowhere. Is it in the devboard description? Or maybe some other board, I constantly have around 10 pdfs to navigate for just some basic functions and learning.
Trying to read from a button on the devboard caused a major burn and my first dev board was destroyed. Reason: I could not find proper documentation how to declare the pin on the devboard as input. (well, on a devboard one could expect example code that walks you through the most basic things. Or expecting a manual that explains what to do and maybe even why?). Afterwards I totally ashed a BMS board, my fault... or lets say, the board is descriped in 3(!) pdfs with different levels of accuracy - yes- one could find that and "sherlock holmes"-his way through all of that...but really? Why is everything so obscure and well hidden?
Using this community... well its not a very high answering frequency here, many threads are abandoned for quite some time. I rarely see intercommunity answers. Looks like everyone waits for the mods to arrive at the scene. SPC5 seems to be non existent in the knowledge base, on stack exchange and elsewhere.
Finding the UM is quite a task, and everyone of them is quite well written with a lot of info, but where to start? Its like 3D Chess, and in between 2.2 is released and half of the application examples disappeared or crash on import..
So right now I am feeling quite alone with a mega complicated IDE without proper documentation struggling with the easiest of tasks (Blink programs, analog readings, CAN message sending, How to use Threads).
What am I missing? I have done all of this on 8-bits for years. It never took me that long without having reached any progress and just having caused destruction and tons of support questions.
How do you guys work with SPC5 and Autodevkit? Simulink? I even looked into Zephyr but as it looks no PowerPC support.