[oe] looking for an arm-based board

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/7/1 Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin at juszkiewicz.com.pl>:
> Dnia środa, 1 lipca 2009 o 13:59:59 Ottavio Campana napisał(a):
>
>> This time  I need a  small arm with  standard peripherals (UART,  SPI
>> or I2C) and ethernet.  The task it has  to do is controlling  a few
>> devices with the commands received over TCP/IP.
>>
>> Since I don't know all the supported machines, can you suggest me a
>> cost effective ARM7 or ARM9 board that works well with OE
>> stable/2009?
>
> Check FriendlyARM devices on http://friendlyarm.eu/ - they costs 125 EURO
> for qvga and 160 EURO for wvga version. You get Samsung s3c2440, 64MB ram,
> ethernet, 3 rs232 ports, usb host/device, audio in/out and extra signals
> at connectors.
>
> This is one of cheapest solution for embedded devices

Not sure about shipping, but if you ourder from china the mini board
(without display) is only rmb 499 (which is a little bit more than eur
50)
See http://www.arm9.net/mini2440.asp
not sure if http://www.friendlyarm.us/ will ship to europe

What you could also do is use a sheevaplug. It has uart and ethernet
and I've seen pictures of someone who abused the SD card as I/O
output. You could rip it apart and only use the PCB if that is more
convenient. 1.2GHz cpu, 512M NAND flash, 512 M RAM, gigabit ethernet;
usd 99

Frans