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Re: Development board advice please
- To: "Nixon, Roger" <Roger dot Nixon at quantumbeam dot com>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Development board advice please
- From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:50:57 -0400
>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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