OK... now for a journey into the "Quad-core ARM® Cortex™ A53" specifications for an attempt to understand our new controls environment.
What's a "Quad-core ARM® Cortex™ A53" thingy? Let's start with the "ARM" name.
ARM Holdings WikipeniA: ".
..is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company with its head office in Cambridge, England. Its largest business is designing processors (CPU) bearing the ARM name...systems and platforms, system-on-a-chip (SoC) infrastructure and software. It is considered to be market dominant in the field of processors for mobile phones (smartphones or otherwise) and tablet computers and is arguably the best-known of the 'Silicon Fen' companies."
What's a
ARM® Cortex™ A53? WikipediA:
"The ARM Cortex-A is a group of 32-bit and 64-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings... ARM Holdings does not manufacture nor sell CPU devices based on its own designs, but rather, licenses the processor architecture to interested parties."
So- ARM designs the CPU stuff, but doesn't manufacture the chips,
Qualcomm is the chip manufacturer. WikipediA: "
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American global semiconductor company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services... San Diego, California, United States..."
The chip which uses the ARM Cortex-A architecture is the
Qualcomm Snapdragon. WikipediA:
"...is a family of mobile systems on a chip (SoC) by Qualcomm. Qualcomm considers Snapdragon a "platform" for use in smartphones, tablets, and smartbook devices."
Hmm... so how does this help me understand how to control a robot? I don't know yet, but will continue this research later.