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Re: Development board advice please



>We must have 2 PCI slots and 2 serial ports (gdb + serial console). We don't
>need much processing power (a few tens of MIPS would be ample), or memory
>and no networking is required. The board will be doing a lot of I/O via two

Unfortunately I think you have conflicting goals there. PCI is a 
complicated beast, multi-slot PCI-based boards are going to be fairly high-end.

I just received the evaluation board for the ITE IT8152F PCI bridge IC for 
StrongARM and it meets some of your requirements: The basic hardware 
(excluding the PCI goodies) is similar enough to the Intel eval board that 
I don't anticipate a huge task porting eCos (however we are strongly 
leaning towards Linux for the product that uses this chip, so I may never 
start that task). I have no idea about UK availability. It is an ATX 
form-factor board with 4 PCI slots, 206MHz StrongARM SA1110, 64Mb RAM, 
CompactFlash slot, two serial and one parallel ports, and it also comes 
with an Ethernet card and a VGA card. The price is US$1500.

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