Peter Stuge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:26:31PM +0200, Indrek Kruusa wrote: > >> For current Thincan (artecgroup/dbe61) development we are using our >> own designed dongles: >> > > http://208.109.65.208/products/hardware-products/programmable-lpc-dongle.html > > Very nice! >
Hm, there is even a web page. Nice to know :) > > >> - LPC connector (the cable shouldn't be longer than 5cm/2 inch) >> - Altera Cyclone FPGA as the control part >> - 16 MB flash: 4x separate 4MB banks; chosen by jumpers (I can have 4 >> separate booting configs( LB/kernel/initrd) in one dongle) >> - chosen flash bank is seen as 1MB at boot, switched to 4MB mode by >> LinuxBIOS. After that you can address that 4MB by FILO as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> - 4 digit LED display (POST code display + selftest) >> - miniUSB (by ftdi chip) for the programming flash banks >> - python script as programming tool >> > > That's a serial emulation, right? How long does it take to program > one bank? > > > Yes, it is emulation. It takes ca. 20 s to flash the 256K LinuxBIOS. Flashing a bigger binary takes proportionally more time. Usually I change one thing at a time (e.g. only kernel) so the need to flash the whole 4MB is quite rare. >> PCB is 8cm x 6cm, i have seen the case for that unit too :) >> >> As much as I know this dongle were made available with initial price >> ca. ?90 (in small quantities). I'd expect that such a thing (with >> somewhat different design) can't be much cheaper. >> > > Is that EUR90 or USD90? Either way I agree - it's a good price! > EUR90. > I want one. :) > You are welcome! :) Guys from [EMAIL PROTECTED] can give you more information about that. > Do you also have a PLCC adapter? Nope. thanks, Indrek > I looked into the product sold by > Segor (that Carl-Daniel linked to) and found that it's made by cab > GmbH: > > http://www.cabgmbh.com/englisch/index.cfm?fuseaction=elektronik&rubrik=Special%20sockets&produkte=159 > > > //Peter > > -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios