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Dear TI
I suggest that the reinforced isolation high-speed mass data transfer capable USB interface developed by TI should be expanded into more sub-products. Using the USB interface, small, high-speed, isolated, large data transmission and reception capable, hardware expandability, highly PC-compatible software development, and computer-based PLC development are possible.
I suggest semiconductors that provide interfaces for digital output, digital input, analog output, analog input, pulse modulation control output, timer output, external signal interrupt, communication channels, and memory channels as USB-IF expansion products of TI's reinforced isolation high-speed mass data transfer capable USB products.
Standalone PLC products using high-speed microcontrollers such as C2000 are possible, but there are competitors such as ARM and RISC-V. It is difficult to say that TI has the upper hand when comparing product prices or development environments using ETH and USB. Users always choose products with excellent price competitiveness and expandability. We can already see that it is easy to build a PC-based expanded PLC system. We can reduce the pure hardware development process, and it becomes possible to develop a system that focuses only on software development based on the computer's operating system.
As the mini PC market grows and computer performance increases, the performance of GUI applications for pure PC operating systems increases, and development becomes easier. It is against providing a development environment like LABVIEW. A graphic-based compiler is rather difficult to learn. I think it would be sufficient if TI provided a library that is easy for Windows programmers to access.
Best regards, Choi