Paolo Redaelli
As I did it again I had to follow Unbricking IFC Boards from A Canadian Engineer which is the same guide found on InForce website, but not buried under an NDA. Kudos!
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Unbricking IFC Boards
A civil engineer with a longlife fondness for Software Libero
Great writeup. I have four of these boards, one of which I recently bricked. Inforce has basically orphaned these boards, which is really unfortunate because they were great. They have pulled all of the recovery files from Techweb and won’t even send you the files if you e-mail them. Oh well.
My board also broke more than an year ago. It may have been cool, but I will stick to the plain’n’simpl Raspberries… or forthcoming RiscV machines
The IFC6410s are much older than Raspberry Pi 3/4s, but they’re still better in a lot of ways. Way better connectivity. True dedicated SATA and PCIe gigabit network is a huge plus. RockPro64s are the current best alternative. Hexa-core processor, each USB port has a decided controller (not shared like on RPi), so you can run 4 HD USB cameras if you want, plus true gigabit network (not over USB), plus an open PCIe 4x slot. I’m using them for some robots right now. They blow the doors off of Raspberry Pis for less money.
But I totally agree, I’ve been closely watching (and drooling over) new Risc-V hardware. It’s still expensive and slow, but the second a decent consumer-level quad core board hits the market I’m buying it.
Since I have four IFC6410 boards lying around, and I will only ever use one or two for projects, I can send you one if you want to replace your dead one. Cover the cost of shipping and it’s yours.