On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 24. November 2015 05.03.16 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
second, the jz4775 CPU Card is finally underway: http://rhombus-tech.net/ingenic/jz4775/news/
this is the first FSF-Endorseable CPU Card, using the 1.2ghz low-power Ingenic MIPS. it seems strange to put a $3 processor alongside $2.50 of NAND Flash and then put in almost $12 of DDR3 RAM ICs (2 GB RAM) but the threshold where SoCs were no longer the most expensive part of a BOM was passed a loong time ago.
This is great news! I also like the 2GB RAM support - with many ARM single- board computers still only supporting 1GB, it makes sense to go for the maximum here -
those kinds of decisions i believe are usually made based on the faulty logical analysis which is summarised as "but... but.... the processor costs less than the memory!!!"
and the USB boot mode support, which is great for experimenting with new boot payloads and is one of the nice things about the Ben NanoNote.
same company. nanonote is the jz4720.
l.