On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <a9edf64f-c7a2-4679-9f69-a9395b1a0...@jks.com>, John Seamons > writes: > >> It's bad enough to have to solder a single LQFP-100.. > > Why even try ? There are plenty of good eval boards from olimex.com > (sparkfun.com in the USA) > > And yes, the HP5370B bus can probably be bitbanged just fine. > > Poul-Henning
For prototyping I agree. I was thinking more about the difficulty of producing a low-cost, low-volume replacement board (assuming there are any takers) By low-cost I'm thinking under $100 (hopefully this is also less than the original 5370 purchase price) On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Javier Herrero wrote: > That is true, the SAM7X... are very nice. ... The bad thing is that they have > Ethernet but no phy, so an external phy must be used. > In that respect, for an application using Ethernet I would use a Luminary, > that has both MAC & PHY on-chip and only needs the magnetic ... > Regards, > > Javier I didn't know the Luminary parts had a phy. Nice. Except for development boards ($100) the chips ($10) seem to be unobtainium at the moment. Although that will change. John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
