Ed W wrote: > Just a note, but I got a quote on a bunch of the LannerInc boards and > they seem quite affordable for what you get. You need to call them to > get your own prices, but they seem to run about $300-400 depending on > board and spec for the Atom devices with lots of network ports.
> Obviously these are quite a lot more power hungry than some ARM device, > but if you want to filter 8x gig E ports then I wonder if you need > something a bit more beefy anyway? > Ed W Thanks Ed for the info. I use way less than 10 Mbps, so these boards (atom & GigE) are overkill. LOW POWER is the quintessential goal, and I like ARM processors for a variety of other reasons: cost, many suppliers, most JTAG setups are excellent, assembler is very cool on ARM, embeddable on SOC or FPGA, etc, etc. James
