Gosh, Javier, I went to your website, and found one of my favorite peeves: it says "low cost" without a hint of the price. I've found that this combination usually means "way out of my price class" or, "if you have to ask, it's too high", or "low cost for a big company with a research budget". Sorry, just my prejudices showing. Don
Javier Herrero > El 23/12/2010 05:24, Bob Bownes escribió: >> >> >> ARM or other general purpose CPU is interesting, but at what cost for >> complexity and/or software development? It would require RAM, IO >> support, and boot rom at the very least. Not insurmountable, but at a >> cost to complexity. >> > If you are not planifying to use an embedded operating system like > uClinux or embedded linux, no need for external RAM or ROM. There are > lot of ARMs from several manufacturers with 256kB flash and 64kB RAM or > more for <$20, with a nice set of peripherals (USB, UARTs, CAN, even > Ethernet without the need of an external phy). Software tools can range > from free (GCC + eclipse) to quite expensive (IAR). > > If you plan to use an embedded operating system, then more RAM, more > ROM... > > We've an embedded processor board that includes a Blackfin, 16 or 32MB > flash, 32 or 64MB RAM and a 250,000 gate FPGA, and belive me, it is not > so expensive (and if it would be interesting for a project like this, we > could try to make a series with special time-nuts price) > http://www.hvsistemas.com/en/prod/H8606.html > > Regards, > > Javier > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Javier Herrero EMAIL: [email protected] > Chief Technology Officer > HV Sistemas S.L. PHONE: +34 949 336 806 > Los Charcones, 17 FAX: +34 949 336 792 > 19170 El Casar - Guadalajara - Spain WEB: http://www.hvsistemas.com > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- "Neither the voice of authority nor the weight of reason and argument are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind." R. Bacon "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it." Ghost in the Shell Dr. Don Latham AJ7LL Six Mile Systems LLP 17850 Six Mile Road POB 134 Huson, MT, 59846 VOX 406-626-4304 www.lightningforensics.com www.sixmilesystems.com _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
