Dave wrote: > It is just a little overwhelming what can be done with these ARM MCUs. > Yes, I'm using the Beagle Board in some projects. One of them receives TCP packets and sets a 32-in 8-out signal multiplexer in a location that is sometimes inaccessible due to radiation. It is a totally minute application for such a powerful processor, but it was extremely easy to set it all up, since it runs a COMPLETE Linux kernel with X, Ethernet, compilers, etc. The "hard drive" is a 4 Gb SD card. I had never developed a TCP server before, I downloaded a few sample programs off the net and had a working server running in one day. The entire program, including setting up the OMAP CPU's GPIO ports as I needed them, setting up the server and binding it to the TCP port and converting incoming packets to settings of the multiplexer is all less than 3 pages of C code!
Another project that is in the development stage now is a multi-channel counter/ratemeter that will have a Glade interface accessible through an ssh -X connection. The Beagle Bone has even more features and costs less! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second resolution app monitoring today. Free. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
