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Medtronics' "open source ventilator" bullshit PR
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amyk:
ST10F is nothing like PIC10F (or STC10F), if that's what you were thinking of...

https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/st10f276e.pdf

16-bit core, 832K(?) flash, 68K(?) RAM, lot of peripherals, 144-pin package.
José.jmaacc:
aren't you guys slightly worried that the sharing of all this information might create clones that don't work properly and can NOT be identified as clones? It can result in both genuine and clones to be ALL removed from medical centers.
james_s:
I would hope that the companies making clones would brand them as their own. I mean this isn't the sort of thing someone is going to build in their garage, it's going to be decent sized companies that are hopefully trustworthy. During WWII we had all sorts of companies building airplanes, there were competitors to Boeing that were building B-17s and other aircraft, nobody worried that these "clones" were defective or improperly made. We needed as many planes as possible and didn't have the luxury of worrying about that.

Whatever the case I think this is pretty cool. I don't mind if they get some PR out of the deal, they're allowed to do that and I'm not going to fault them for giving away their IP for free. If nothing else it provides an interesting view into how these machines work.
pipe2null:
These links worked for me without registering...  Are there downloads other than these?  Does this look like the complete set of all files for the machine?
https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-com/global/Corporate/covid19/downloads/ventilator-files/medtronic-pb560-ventilator-system-file-set-1.zip
https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-com/global/Corporate/covid19/downloads/ventilator-files/medtronic-pb560-ventilator-system-file-set-2.zip
https://www.medtronic.com/content/dam/medtronic-com/global/Corporate/covid19/downloads/ventilator-files/medtronic-pb560-ventilator-system-file-set-3.zip
tom66:
At least reading the source code doesn't make me feel so bad about some of my messy code.  This is medical device software with comments mixed in French and English, global variables everywhere (with no management over who reads or writes what), mixed tab and space use, spelling errors and undocumented constants.

But I agree it's pretty cool that they've now released the source, I'd say you pretty much have everything you need. Sourcing that old ST processor will probably be the hardest part.
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