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Arcom - Development kit allows fast design of embedded Linux devices (electropages)
electropages.com
reviews Arcom's SBC-GX533 Embedded Linux development kit.
"The kitÂ’s SBC-GX533 board is well suited to deeply embedded, remote or unattended installations demanding reasonable processing power. It is a low profile, fan-less, RoHS compliant EBX form factor board, based on a 400MHz AMD Geode GX533 1.1W processor. It has 512MB of DDR DRAM and 32MB of Flash installed, of which 13MB are used by the Linux image. This leaves 19MB of physical memory, equivalent to about 38MB of usable space, available for Linux application and data storage. The board also features TFT or CRT support, an analog touchscreen interface, dual 10/100BaseT Ethernet ports, CompactFlash (CF+), 4 serial and 4 USB ports. Industrial expansion is provided through an 8-bit TTL I/O port, a PC/104 and a PC/104+ site. All usual PC interfaces are also included."
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Price? Posted Jun 27, 2006 3:19 UTC (Tue) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847) [Link] Oh yeah, and how much does it cost? I'm trying to develop some embedded audio apps on a shoestring, and frankly the first thing I look for at this point is price. This article doesn't list it :-(
Price? Posted Jun 27, 2006 7:55 UTC (Tue) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link] Not el cheapo at US$997 for the Linux and WinCE versions. DOS is cheaper, WinXPembedded is more. See http://www.arcom.com/devkit-linux-gx533.htm
Price? Posted Jun 27, 2006 8:12 UTC (Tue) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link] Sorry, that should have been http://www.arcom.com/pricing/sbc_gx533_linux_dk.htm
NSLU2 Posted Jun 27, 2006 15:35 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link] The best platform I've seen for developing embedded Linux apps is the NSLU2:
Very cheap, 266 MHz XScale processor, low power, USB expansion (so you can add what you need, and aren't paying for what you don't), and most importantly a strong development community.
Main disadvantage is limited RAM.
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