Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-09-27, graham_k <nab...@keellings.com> wrote:
I'm on a tight budget. I don't have any projects in mind, I
just want to do some "tyre kicking" with eCos.
Can anyone recommend a really inexpensive kit and maybe even
tell me where to order it?
You can run eCos on generic PC hardware, so any of the free
IA32 VMs will work. I've run it on Qemu without any problems.
There's also a synthetic Linux target that doesn't cost
anything.
As for cheap hardware, I'd probably look at the ARM development
boards from olimex.com or similar. IIRC there are eCos ports
to some of the Cirrus, Philips, and Atmel parts on those
boards.
A while ago I checked price of ARM-based board in
http://ecos.sourceware.org/hardware.html. Most ARM-based board in that
list is already obsolete.
The cheapest ARM-based board I could find is Atmel AT91SAM7S
<http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/devices.asp?family_id=605#1586> ,
around USD 100 in digikey.
Olimex boards are not on that list some are eCos compatible: -
http://www.olimex.com/dev/lpc-h2294.html "Native hardware support by
eCOS the anonymous eCos CVS tree has this target inside 'olpch2294' eCos
target", priced at EUR 70.95
Those boards have no ethernet ports.
Hope it helps,
-w-
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