[HH] small inexpensive embedded platform

[Ted]

Maybe I'll throw one more platform into the mix: the recently orphaned
Chumby.  Before Chumby Industries closed its doors, my Chumby 8 was a
Flash/Action Script widget player based on the Marvell PXA168 (ARM 9),
128MB of RAM, 2GB of flash, 2 USB ports, wifi, audio (built-in
speakers/microphone), SDHC card slot and a low resolution touch
screen.  At the moment, it's mostly a glorified alarm clock, but there
are other projects that run on this platform (e.g. using Open
Embedded).  Depending on your application, you might want to use a
remaindered Chumby.  The going rate seems to be about the same as a
RaspberryPi on ebay.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Drew Van Zandt <drew.vanzandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's also REALLY nice if you have one or two small things that need
> real-time performance better than 10ms (the kernel timeslice it ships with).
> "A few hundred nanoseconds" is pretty good realtime response.  ;-)
>
> The toolflow is not bad at all.
>
> Drew Van Zandt
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> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Greg London <email at greglondon.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hm, spec for fpga is here:
>>
>> http://www.latticesemi.com/documents/HB1004.pdf
>>
>> Not too shabby.  It's a small FPGA, but good for glue.
>>
>> Almost everyone who does embedded stuff
>> needs some external glue logic to interface with the real
>> world. This is a nice way to eliminate external hardware
>> and still allow customization.
>>
>> 5k of clb's is  probably enough to make a custom
>> serial interface, or custom parallel, or custom
>> timer or custom whatever interface.
>>
>> No idea how hard the toolflow is to use, but the price is nice.
>>
>> Greg