On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:26:31PM +0200, Indrek Kruusa wrote: > For current Thincan (artecgroup/dbe61) development we are using our > own designed dongles:
http://208.109.65.208/products/hardware-products/programmable-lpc-dongle.html Very nice! > - LPC connector (the cable shouldn't be longer than 5cm/2 inch) > - Altera Cyclone FPGA as the control part > - 16 MB flash: 4x separate 4MB banks; chosen by jumpers (I can have 4 > separate booting configs( LB/kernel/initrd) in one dongle) > - chosen flash bank is seen as 1MB at boot, switched to 4MB mode by > LinuxBIOS. After that you can address that 4MB by FILO as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - 4 digit LED display (POST code display + selftest) > - miniUSB (by ftdi chip) for the programming flash banks > - python script as programming tool That's a serial emulation, right? How long does it take to program one bank? > PCB is 8cm x 6cm, i have seen the case for that unit too :) > > As much as I know this dongle were made available with initial price > ca. ?90 (in small quantities). I'd expect that such a thing (with > somewhat different design) can't be much cheaper. Is that EUR90 or USD90? Either way I agree - it's a good price! I want one. :) Do you also have a PLCC adapter? I looked into the product sold by Segor (that Carl-Daniel linked to) and found that it's made by cab GmbH: http://www.cabgmbh.com/englisch/index.cfm?fuseaction=elektronik&rubrik=Special%20sockets&produkte=159 //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
