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Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista SoftwareCavium Networks to acquire MontaVista SoftwarePosted Nov 11, 2009 12:52 UTC (Wed) by troglobit (subscriber, #39178)Parent article: Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software
Wow, that was completely unexpected. We had a meeting just last week with Cavium representatives where I questioned the level of Linux support for their new, very exciting, ECONA series of CPU:s.
After the meeting I was more confident they could deliver. But now I can even sell my manager on the idea! :-)
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Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 11, 2009 18:47 UTC (Wed) by tbm (subscriber, #7049) [Link]
Out of interest, can you elaborate what you find exciting about ECONA? I only found out about it today and haven't looked at it closely yet.
Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 11, 2009 21:19 UTC (Wed) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]
Econa chips are very low power implementations of Arm that fit into the same niche the now discontinued cirrus logic ep series did.
See, for example, the 400mw http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?prod...
Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 12, 2009 2:03 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Hmmmm, it contains an FPGA. What would that be used for out in the field in a product like this?
Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 12, 2009 2:16 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] Replacing glue logic. If it's big enough, performing optimized computation.
Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 12, 2009 4:48 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]
The TS7500 board doesn't have a very big FPGA, but it is sufficient to support a bunch of relays and a bunch of serial ports (see the enclosure and expansion board in the previous url).
I only mentioned it because it was a leading contender for my "pocobelle project" and it was an impressive successor to the ep9302 I was using before.
The price is what gets me... a totally customizable 400mw board with 64MB of ram with a complete distro that fits on a flash card for under 100 bucks. I remember running an entire ISP on hardware with basically the same specs, back in 95....
The only thing that compares are the sheeva plugs (also cool) and those have a less industrial design (and way more ram and way more power consumption and they aren't cavium, so I digress)
Cavium Networks to acquire MontaVista Software Posted Nov 12, 2009 4:55 UTC (Thu) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]
"The price is what gets me... a totally customizable 400mw board with 64MB of ram with a complete distro that fits on a flash card for under 100 bucks. I remember running an entire ISP on hardware with basically the same specs, back in 95...."
Except power consumption, disk space, and price, I meant to say.
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