<story><title>AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can&apos;t be bothered to test</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/ab07-usb3fmc-wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>I saw her take on this on Twitter and flinched. We had a similar experience with a &amp;gt; $5K eval board from Xilinx that we were basing a product on, and a customer wanted to start software development before the product was ready so we sold them a setup that was equivalent to our product in design (and embedded the Xilinx board) They found a problem which turned out to be a design defect on the eval board so we went to Xilinx for a warranty replacement, they refused saying they expressly disclaim any &amp;quot;fitness for purpose&amp;quot; on their eval boards and their terms of service disallow using their eval boards in a product. I rather rudely asked them why they charged money for them then.&lt;p&gt;A very annoying experience.</text></comment>
<story><title>AB07-USB3FMC: The $1.65k eval board they can&apos;t be bothered to test</title><url>https://lab.ktemkin.com/post/ab07-usb3fmc-wtf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aidenn0</author><text>Eval boards are often &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; buggy than production boards for the exact same reason they are more expensive: volumes are low, so engineering work must be amortized over a much smaller number of units.</text></comment>