[time-nuts] Form Factor and such, Big Picture

[Don Latham]

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
>
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