Another view ! I found myself going in another direction recently... PC104 :-) ...
Designing a board for a really small think, one's favorite either PIC 51's ATmel freescale or whatever seems to be fine. A small demo board or existing PCB from some vendors seems fine to me also. but when it comes to a medium to high power thing lets say in the ARM category and above, it becomes a lot easier to use a PC104 board. Specially because those pop-up on ebay at less than most of the kits and demo boards for uC that have 1/100 of the processing power. Not to mention the tools available that are the same as any for the PC architecture... Compilers assemblers etc... sky is the limit. ROM can be a compactFlash-ide disk, a few bucks you get 1Gb if you want, plus Ethernet, LCD/VGA USB LPT, 2xRS232 etc (depending on the specific model). For more complex things it just doesn't pay to make a specific PCB (unless for big qty business production)... Last year I got on ebay a few 233MHz Pentium PC104 with eth10/100 + 2xRS232 + lpt + 2xusb + Kb for 30euro each!!! What else could we do with that money ?! ;-) Ok fine they eat [EMAIL PROTECTED] not exactely low power... but there are better ones... my 2 cents ;-) Luis Cupido. ct1dmk. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.