complain about documentation of vl53…
Hi,
don't know if it reaches someone who is responsible, but just some thoughts about the datasheets of all the VL53… which i have seen:
the NXP documents about I2C which are the defacto standard are stating an address is 7 or 10 bit. So it’s not a question how some microcontroller is handling bit shifting or internal storage of the address, the address of the vl53 is 0x29, not 0x52. If you use Philips/NXP protocol you should follow it’s specification. Please use this in your datasheets.
if you talk about SPI it is common to use POCI/PICO or MOSI/MISO and CS/SS/CE…. Why you don’t use the common names for slave select? What should NCS be? Noncommunication Chip Select? Why you transcribe MOSI as "main out secondary in" instead of using common "master out slave in"? If you want to distance yourselves from these terms because of their connection to slavery, then why not use POCI/PICO with "peripheral out/controller in” and vice versa as common.
why you describe pins as GPIO if they no one can use them as GPIO? Just call them INT and SYNC if they can’t used for different purposes.
I really don’t understand why to confuse the reader with not common description, namings and wrong described pin functions.
Perhaps someone could forward this to the department responsible.
regards Chris
