>I'm looking for a low-power Linux board, something equivalent to a cell
>phone or a Palm, in terms of power and performance characteristics. Any
>good recommendations? We need:
How about a EMbedded PowerPC system? On a board half the size of a
credit card you can get a MPC8xx CPU with up to 64 MB of RAM, 8 MB
Flash, serial, Ethernet, USB, SPI, I2C, PCMCIA, LCV/VGA controller,
CAN bus.
See http://www.denx.de/embedded-ppc-en.html for some images.
Quote:> + Good development env (incl OS and compiler support)
Check. A CD-ROM with kernel sources, cross development tools, and
native filesystem (which the target can mount as root filesystem over
NFS) is available, too.
Quote:> + Easy to get started (i.e, not having to spend 10 hours to
> figure out "how do I download my binary image on the damn
> thing)
Check. Comes with Linux pre-installed. You have the bash prompt
within 5 seconds after power-on.
Quote:> + Serial I/O. Ethernet is desirable but not required
Check. Up to 6 serial ports; 10 or 10/100 Ethernet (capabilities
depending on CPU model).
Quote:> + VGA out desirable but not required?
Check. LCD/VGA controler avalilable on MPC823 / MPC823E.
Feel free to contact me for a quote.
Wolfgang Denk
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Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Web: www.denx.de
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