Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> In fact, I'm curious how much it would cost to actually buy one of those > ARM9 boards you mention. They priced from $65 each, but do you have to > buy 100 to get that price? This reminds me that I've been thinking about trying out the gumstix + roboaudio solution for building a simple fx box.

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Monday 20 August 2007, Florian Schmidt wrote: > I think i'll stick with the board i originally posted the link to [even if > it doesn't work well enough i have only wasted 50 euros which isn't that > much].. I will attach a USB audio interface for testing purposes and if the > performance is su

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Lee Revell
On 8/20/07, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is somewhat computationally intensive to drive USB audio. For > example the IPX425 used in the NSLU2 can just barely do it. USB audio > runs at 48K and most music is 44.1K, you need to resample it. Make > sure the board has DMA support for the U

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 19:24 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > I think i'll stick with the board i originally posted the link to [even if it > doesn't work well enough i have only wasted 50 euros which isn't that much].. > I will attach a USB audio interface for testing purposes and if the > perfo

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/20/07, Florian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2007, Steve Harris wrote: > > > > I did a bit more research and barring the size of the board I'd say > > > something like the Epia 5000 > > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp? > > > motherboar

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/20/07, Joshua D. Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:40 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > > Just by quick googling I found for example following: > > > http://blackfin.uclinux.org > > > http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=ad1836a > > > > > > So there might be

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Monday 20 August 2007, Steve Harris wrote: > > I did a bit more research and barring the size of the board I'd say > > something like the Epia 5000 > > http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp? > > motherboard_id=21 > > should be a very good choice. Not too complex to finis

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Joshua D. Boyd
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 22:40 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > Just by quick googling I found for example following: > > http://blackfin.uclinux.org > > http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=ad1836a > > > > So there might be plenty of hardware and even supporting software > > available which

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Harris
On 20 Aug 2007, at 11:26, Robert Jonsson wrote: Hi, Steve Harris wrote: There's also these: http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=39 I've not worked with that one in particular, but I have with a larger one. They're really easy to work with as they're effectively just generic x86 boards. Some of

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, Steve Harris wrote: There's also these: http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=39 I've not worked with that one in particular, but I have with a larger one. They're really easy to work with as they're effectively just generic x86 boards. Some of the larger ones are fanless. I've been wanting to p

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-20 Thread Steve Harris
There's also these: http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=39 I've not worked with that one in particular, but I have with a larger one. They're really easy to work with as they're effectively just generic x86 boards. Some of the larger ones are fanless. I've been wanting to put together an effrects

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Jon Smirl
Low end embedded CPUs don't have a MMU so they run ucLinux instead of full Linux. It is difficult to program on these systems and you will need a JTAG. Probably not good for a first embedded system. Efika is a much easier system to get started on. http://www.bplan-gmbh.de/efika_spec_en.html It is

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Jussi Laako wrote: > Florian Schmidt wrote: > > Thought about that, but no, too much latency [although i guess one could > > try hacking the USB stuff ;)].. I was rather thinking about attaching a > > codec to the SPI bus.. But then i'd have to write a driver for it, too..

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Jussi Laako
Florian Schmidt wrote: > Thought about that, but no, too much latency [although i guess one could try > hacking the USB stuff ;)].. I was rather thinking about attaching a codec to > the SPI bus.. But then i'd have to write a driver for it, too.. :) Just by quick googling I found for example fol

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > For 65$ (ca. 50 euros) it looks lie a bargain, but it seems its FPU is > > supported by gcc only with a patch. And i'm also not sure how much > > processing power this MaverickCrunch has [FLOP numbers are hard to > > find].. > > Interesting subjec

Re: [LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, Florian Schmidt wrote: Hi, i'm kinda sorta in a way planning to build my own effects box. And i'm looking around for embedded boards + cpu's + fpu's which would have the required performance to be able to run some "simple" effects like FreeVerb, some compressor etc (of course with low la

[LAD] Embedded linux board

2007-08-19 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi, i'm kinda sorta in a way planning to build my own effects box. And i'm looking around for embedded boards + cpu's + fpu's which would have the required performance to be able to run some "simple" effects like FreeVerb, some compressor etc (of course with low latency of 16 frames/perdiod or