On Wednesday 27. August 2014 12.23.17 lkcl . wrote: > hi all, > > i don't know if anyone here has been following the rhombus tech > project but it basically involves a simple upgradeable cpu card > standard where any card is compatible with any base unit it's plugged > into. several revisions of the first standard (eoma68) later and the > ingenic jz4775 qualifies as an SoC that's suitable.
I saw this come up on the arm-netbook list. It was a bit of a surprise that it might qualify for use in a device running only Free Software, what with Imagination Technologies buying MIPS and the inevitable consequences for anyone licensing stuff from them, which I think Ingenic do these days. > i've been working with ingenic to get a first prototype eoma68-jz4775 > cpu card ready, and i am planning to send the gerbers off to a company > to get some samples made up, in the first week of next month > (september). It's nice to see some progress again, especially after the apparent bad luck and nasty surprises of the last year or so. > basically i wanted to let people know that the project is going ahead, > because there may be projects that people are doing where a > self-contained ready-made 5mm x 85mm x 54mm cpu card with an ingenic > JZ4775, 2gb of RAM, a GbE PHY, standard interfaces such as SD/MMC, > SPI, UART, 2 USBs, I2C, 18-pin RGB/TTL and some GPIO including PWM and > two dedicated EINT lines would be useful to have as a way to greatly > simplify project development. Thinking that this would make a powerful upgrade to the Ben ;-) what happened to those people who wanted to use the EOMA68 stuff in a portable games console? Did they get beyond the CAD models for the casing? > so if anyone would like to take a risk to get some early first > revision samples (with no guarantees or even any software installed), > or if you would like to wait till later for a 2nd revision, please do > say so. I guess you'll know a bit more about the details after you get the first boards back from the manufacturer: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/2014-August/010176.html It sounds rather interesting, I'll admit. Paul _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
