looking for an arm-based board

looking for an arm-based board

[Ottavio Campana]

Hi,

I'm starting  a new  project based  on linux embedded.  This time  I can
choose the platform to  use, and I'd like to use  an arm based solution,
because I previously used TI davinci soc  and I was satisfied by the arm
(a bit less by montavista...).

This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI or
I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few devices
with the commands received over TCP/IP.

Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a cost
effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE stable/2009?

Thank you,

Ottavio

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Re: looking for an arm-based board

[Marco Cavallini]

Ottavio Campana ha scritto:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm starting  a new  project based  on linux embedded.  This time  I can
> choose the platform to  use, and I'd like to use  an arm based solution,
> because I previously used TI davinci soc  and I was satisfied by the arm
> (a bit less by montavista...).
> 
> This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI or
> I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few devices
> with the commands received over TCP/IP.
> 
> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a cost
> effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE stable/2009?
> 
> Thank you,
> 

Ottavio,
we at KOAN are currently supporting Ronetix' board PM9263 with in OE
main tree and stable/2009 with KaeilOS distro.

http://www.ronetix.at/pm9263.html
http://www.kaeilos.com/?q=download

Further supported boards from other producers are on the way, stay tuned ;-)

Cordiali Saluti / Kindest Regards / mit freundlichen Grüssen
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Re: looking for an arm-based board

[John Willis]

> This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI
> or
> I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few
> devices
> with the commands received over TCP/IP.
> 
> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a
> cost
> effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE stable/2009?

If you want a cheap board that is well supported and very actively developed
by OE (both dev and stable/2009) then the obvious choice is the BeagleBoard.
You would need to add Ethernet into the mix but a simple USB stick (or I/C)
can do that job well.

It's a Cortex-A7 board so it may be over the top in the capacity stakes but
it's hard to knock it ;-).

John

Re: looking for an arm-based board

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Ottavio Campana schrieb:
> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a cost
> effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE stable/2009?

the FriendlyARM stuff (http://www.friendlyarm.net) is quite cheap (using a
Samsung ARM9). Its supported out of the box in .dev and adding the necessary
files to stable should be trivial. There is a forked OE stable repository that
can be used as well.

If it turns out that you need more CPU power you can always use a BeagleBoard
and add an USB Ethernet adapter.

Greetings

Florian

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Re: looking for an arm-based board

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia środa, 1 lipca 2009 o 13:59:59 Ottavio Campana napisał(a):

> This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI
> or I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few
> devices with the commands received over TCP/IP.
>
> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a
> cost effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE
> stable/2009?

Check FriendlyARM devices on http://friendlyarm.eu/ - they costs 125€ 
for qvga and 160€ for wvga version. You get Samsung s3c2440, 64MB ram, 
ethernet, 3 rs232 ports, usb host/device, audio in/out and extra signals 
at connectors.

This is one of cheapest solution for embedded devices.

Regards, 
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Re: looking for an arm-based board

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/7/1 Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin@juszkiewicz.com.pl>:
> Dnia środa, 1 lipca 2009 o 13:59:59 Ottavio Campana napisał(a):
>
>> This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI
>> or I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few
>> devices with the commands received over TCP/IP.
>>
>> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a
>> cost effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE
>> stable/2009?
>
> Check FriendlyARM devices on http://friendlyarm.eu/ - they costs 125 EURO
> for qvga and 160 EURO for wvga version. You get Samsung s3c2440, 64MB ram,
> ethernet, 3 rs232 ports, usb host/device, audio in/out and extra signals
> at connectors.
>
> This is one of cheapest solution for embedded devices

Not sure about shipping, but if you ourder from china the mini board
(without display) is only rmb 499 (which is a little bit more than eur
50)
See http://www.arm9.net/mini2440.asp
not sure if http://www.friendlyarm.us/ will ship to europe

What you could also do is use a sheevaplug. It has uart and ethernet
and I've seen pictures of someone who abused the SD card as I/O
output. You could rip it apart and only use the PCB if that is more
convenient. 1.2GHz cpu, 512M NAND flash, 512 M RAM, gigabit ethernet;
usd 99

Frans

Re: looking for an arm-based board

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

btw the friendlyarm boards are a lot cheaper on ebay than on the european shop.
See e.g. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110381626767
search for s3c2440

Frans