Hi, my name is Numan, I'm from England and I recently created a startup and I would greatly appreciate some help from TI.
I hope this doesn't bother you too much but I don't feel confident sharing the entire scope of the project, however, I will share a bit of what I'm trying to achieve and perhaps you can deduce what products, technologies and instruments would come in handy.
Regarding the product itself, there will only ever be one model, it will be larger than a watch but smaller than a smartphone. I was originally thinking to develop the SoC from scratch, however, I can see how implementing an off-the-shelf solution could be more reliable so I'm strongly considering heading towards this route.
Three things that are bugging me regarding the idea:
1. First idea is to either implement a reliable, secure, efficient, modern/edge processor with a separate GNSS module utilizing most if not all the satellites.
2. Second idea is to implement a complete off-the-shelf solution which theoretically has all the things listed above integrated within a platform such as the Snapdraggon W5+ (if you can check that out) or competing solution if I can find another.
3. Both of the above ideas will need to be able to provide OTA updates with an integrated strictly contactless payment feature.
I'm determined to test both ideas to essentially develop a leading edge solution that can be long-lasting, unless our hardware engineer or respective partners, should it be yourselves advise otherwise to save on time and costs.
As you may be aware GNSS technology tend to run hot and draw a lot of energy, so naturally through hardware and clever software I'm expecting to circumvent this to essentially avoid end-users overclocking the processor, so efficiency and security is rather key.
I'm hoping you can provide the necessary information even though it may not exactly entail a TI product, not that I'm suggesting that you directly recommend a competing product:)
If you don't mind, could you also kindly answer the following questions as well:
- Is the ARM based processor the only type of processor that TI engineer and supply?
- Does TI supply any other kind of SoC?
- Are you aware of any other kind of TI product that would work well in terms of security and communication with what I'm trying to achieve?
My apologies if anybody feels some of my enquires are out of the scope for this particular forum. Before I hire our first lead hardware or mechatronics engineer I just wanted to grasp everything before hand and know positively all the requirements that will be involved in terms of edge solutions and supply chain. If you feel I need to be a bit more specific regarding a feature and best pushed on a different forum please tel me. Though from what Jejomar has told me I feel the TI team could just cc me on the processor forum quite easily rather creating separate issues foe each separate component/feature.
Best regards and take care,
Numan
