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 Sep 21 2006, 05:04 AM
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intresting things have been happening latley with freescale, in 30 days (i i remeber correctly) they get sold to new owners, what this means i dont really know as i havent looked at the proposed plans if any are even avalible
anyway there was a new product on the market that was simmilar to what i had in mind in terms of casing, its a pxa270 chip (xscale) but it has wifi, bluetooth, keyboard and more. some notable features (read must have) are: ethernet 128MB of ram 8 hour batter life 20GB drive USB host (most likly full speed) remeber i am mainly designing this as a portable office and have recently been eyeing the flybook and lifebook after seeing them in person however this device seems to fill 90% of what i was planning to chuck in there, the only things missing seem to be video out and a video card anyway links: http://www.slashgear.com/more-details-on-t...reen-201720.php http://www.seamlessinternet.com/s-xgen/specs.html http://www.slashgear.com/s-xgen-umpc-field...oard-141644.php |
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Jul 20 2007, 01:48 PM
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yes, I know you (da blitz) look at linux devices regularly, but not everyone does!
this board looks very interesting: http://www.armkits.com/product/NK9315.asp * Dimensions: 140x200mm * Processor: Cirrus Logic EP9315 based on 32-bit ARM920T core microcontrollers running at 200 MHz * Power input: DC12.0V * 32M NOR Flash Memory * 64M Nand Flash Memory * 64M 32bit SDRAM * LCD Display and Touch-Screen interface * Analog VGA connection * Composite Video and S-Video Output Connectors * IDE Interface * CAN interface * Three-port USB Host * 20pin standard JTAG interface * Real-Time Clock * I2S Interface * 8*8 Keyboard interface * PS/2 Interface * 5 UARTs. One is RS485, and the other four are RS232 (two are extended through one PC16C2550 chip using two 10pin connectors) * 10/100Mbps Ethernet Interface * CF card socket * PCMCIA card socket * System bus interface it's ONLY weaknesses as far as I can see is a lack of RAM, if it had 256M RAM it'd be great and no SD card slot; it's also a bit big, and we could comfortably drop the IDE, PS/2, and PCMCIA slot to reduce its size. Hmm, it'd be nice if it had a sata port which could be brought externally for things! |
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Aug 5 2007, 08:27 AM
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QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jul 20 2007, 09:48 PM) yes, I know you (da blitz) look at linux devices regularly, but not everyone does! this board looks very interesting: http://www.armkits.com/product/NK9315.asp * Dimensions: 140x200mm * Processor: Cirrus Logic EP9315 based on 32-bit ARM920T core microcontrollers running at 200 MHz * Power input: DC12.0V * 32M NOR Flash Memory * 64M Nand Flash Memory * 64M 32bit SDRAM * LCD Display and Touch-Screen interface * Analog VGA connection * Composite Video and S-Video Output Connectors * IDE Interface * CAN interface * Three-port USB Host * 20pin standard JTAG interface * Real-Time Clock * I2S Interface * 8*8 Keyboard interface * PS/2 Interface * 5 UARTs. One is RS485, and the other four are RS232 (two are extended through one PC16C2550 chip using two 10pin connectors) * 10/100Mbps Ethernet Interface * CF card socket * PCMCIA card socket * System bus interface it's ONLY weaknesses as far as I can see is a lack of RAM, if it had 256M RAM it'd be great and no SD card slot; it's also a bit big, and we could comfortably drop the IDE, PS/2, and PCMCIA slot to reduce its size. Hmm, it'd be nice if it had a sata port which could be brought externally for things!  glomation inc sells the same board for $100. But regardless of the price, I wouldn't use a cirrus cpu, since they suck. Every ep93xx cpu produced today fails to boot about 10% of the time... |
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Aug 5 2007, 02:37 PM
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QUOTE(koen @ Aug 5 2007, 05:27 PM) glomation inc sells the same board for $100. But regardless of the price, I wouldn't use a cirrus cpu, since they suck. Every ep93xx cpu produced today fails to boot about 10% of the time... top tip, thanks for that! it seems to me that an N800 with big memory cards is still one of the most cost effective well featured arm development/test tools. it'd be nice if the schematics were published so it'd be more amenable to hardware hackery. FX: google google. http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/s...ead.php?p=65414 hmmm, someone grabbed the files before they disappeared, so I too now have a copy  sadly the image quality really sucks! |
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Da_Blitz Alternatives Sep 21 2006, 05:04 AM
adf very close indeed.
If the PP is like this with vg... Sep 21 2006, 12:22 PM Da_Blitz the port is what i am talking about, there are som... Sep 21 2006, 10:49 PM
uMP2k QUOTE(Da_Blitz @ Sep 22 2006, 04:49 PM)the po... Sep 21 2006, 10:56 PM Da_Blitz thoght that this is the best place to post this
a... Sep 24 2006, 09:28 PM Ferret-Simpson Trolltech, Freescales new owners, Fedora (If we ma... Oct 2 2006, 01:43 AM Da_Blitz acutally a number of them do provide patches for l... Oct 2 2006, 04:35 AM Ferret-Simpson What the heck are you taking?
You asked for compa... Oct 9 2006, 10:34 AM Da_Blitz sorry missed your point
at the moment i have in a... Oct 9 2006, 04:31 PM speculatrix here's another ready-made PXA270 module from A... Nov 1 2006, 05:01 AM Da_Blitz this one keeps on cropping up. very nice but i wou... Nov 1 2006, 06:55 PM speculatrix I think the key with the anders one is that it... Nov 2 2006, 03:23 AM Da_Blitz after looking at my current usggestion it seems ma... Nov 2 2006, 03:31 AM speculatrix of course, you could build early units from these ... Nov 2 2006, 04:02 AM Da_Blitz actually that would be no diffrent from just using... Nov 2 2006, 05:28 AM Ragnorok - I think software will be a real issue for this p... Dec 6 2006, 06:41 PM stampsm QUOTE(Ragnorok @ Dec 6 2006, 06:41 PM)- I thi... Dec 6 2006, 11:37 PM Da_Blitz ive been lookinng at it and i was going to use ubo... Dec 7 2006, 01:49 AM Ragnorok QUOTE(Da_Blitz @ Dec 7 2006, 09:49 AM)ive bee... May 19 2007, 08:24 AM Ragnorok - House ... interference ... bktzzkt ... Norwegian... Jan 26 2007, 08:02 PM Da_Blitz its funny i was looking into "bios" and ... Jan 27 2007, 06:13 AM speculatrix Ok, I know we all read linuxdevices regularly, and... Mar 22 2007, 10:20 AM Da_Blitz i was waiting for someone to mention that
i thoug... Mar 22 2007, 06:03 PM stampsm here is the manufacture's web page for the boa... Mar 22 2007, 06:39 PM adf that in something the size of the koshinja (sp) wi... Mar 22 2007, 06:57 PM speculatrix my Deutsche is nich sehr gut but there's enoug... Mar 23 2007, 01:50 AM Ragnorok - I like it, speculatrix! A little less memor... Apr 5 2007, 02:00 PM morrijr Another alternative...?
http://www.linuxdevices.c... Apr 20 2007, 05:22 AM speculatrix QUOTE(morrijr @ Apr 20 2007, 02:22 PM)Another... Apr 20 2007, 05:59 AM Da_Blitz actually its alot easier if you drop the confusing... May 20 2007, 09:14 AM Ragnorok - Sorry for the term confusion. So this will put ... May 21 2007, 09:53 AM koen Some pictures of the glomation board: http://domin... Aug 5 2007, 08:30 AM louigi600 14x20 cm is kind of big for a handheld .... and al... Aug 5 2007, 08:21 AM louigi600 The one I liked best so far was the Adelaide thing... Aug 5 2007, 09:14 AM speculatrix QUOTE(louigi600 @ Aug 5 2007, 06:14 PM)The on... Aug 6 2007, 01:59 AM Da_Blitz definattly food for thought
i did manage to finis... Aug 5 2007, 12:46 PM Da_Blitz very nice, just found this little device
http://w... Aug 7 2007, 02:08 AM louigi600 It's 1/2 the size of my laptop ... and weights... Aug 7 2007, 05:14 AM Da_Blitz so i would be assuming you have one then?
its an ... Aug 7 2007, 07:31 PM louigi600 No I only have some Z's and some standad x86 h... Aug 8 2007, 02:20 AM koen The adelaide looks like a nice board, but it will ... Aug 8 2007, 04:13 AM louigi600 Ooooops ... there we go again with the price.
Whit... Aug 8 2007, 08:27 AM koen QUOTE(louigi600 @ Aug 8 2007, 04:27 PM)Ooooop... Aug 8 2007, 09:21 AM louigi600 I changed my mind ... I don't like Adelaide an... Aug 8 2007, 10:18 AM speculatrix some more interesting linux embedded stuff:
http:/... Aug 21 2007, 04:59 AM Da_Blitz i have seen alot of nice atmel arm refrence platfo... Aug 24 2007, 01:07 AM Tom61 Another homebrew machine, this time a gaming handh... Sep 23 2007, 01:18 PM speculatrix hmm, I remember seeing the buglabs stuff a while a... Sep 23 2007, 01:36 PM Da_Blitz i do have some stuff but its rough, and not yet an... Sep 23 2007, 11:33 PM |
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