[9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with
All, I just had to post this on 9fans. Sorry if everyone has already seen it. http://www.mini-box.com/pico-SAM9G45-X It is $69 USD. I can't even remember how the ARM port is going but this might be some cheap hardware to get up and running. I've never tried getting an ARM board working under plan 9 so I am hesitant. If I can convince myself I've got the time, I will buy one. They've even got schematics posted on their wiki (link can be found if you follow the above URL). -Jack
Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with
we used to buy lots of stuff from that company, they are really good to deal with. Geoff, does that cpu look vaguely compatible? Can you tell if there is a JTAG port? ron
Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with
On 24/06/2011 21:59, Jack Norton wrote: All, I just had to post this on 9fans. Sorry if everyone has already seen it. http://www.mini-box.com/pico-SAM9G45-X Sorry, I have not such experience yet. However, this site might interest people that care about energy efficiency in their servers. I discovered this vendor site one year ago while I was looking for very low-consumption hardware pieces. I have to say that they have really interesting power supplies (among other hardware of course) called PicoPSU: they are fanless, very-very small and have ~95% efficiency. They are only DC/DC converters, so one must use an additional AC/DC power supply (like laptop power supplies). Of course the overall effiency of AC/DC-DC/DC chain is still very interesting. Nicolas
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Do they really provide astonishingly great documentation or why do you think are these boards worth the bucks?