On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:51:59 -0400, Corey Osgood <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The i945/ICH7M would be a far better final target for an Atom chipset
>> and has none of the above mentioned issues. Of course you would need
>> to use Diamondville Atom rather Silverthorne Atom in this case.
>>
>
> The problem with i945, from what I've read, is that the i945 chipset uses
> as
> much or perhaps more power then the CPU, which makes it less than ideal
> for
> low power embedded systems, especially battery powered ones e.g. nettops.
>
Looks like the ECS 945GCT-D might be a good starting choice. It looks like
the SPI has a dip socket already :-)
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
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