On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Boris Barbour barbour@biologie.ens.fr wrote:
On 24/05/14 09:06, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
USB, VGA, SD/MMC, HDMI, 10/100 Ethernet, 1Gb RAM, 4Gb NAND, Dual-Core A20, a few pins GPIO and an I2C interface. would that do for a start?
Mirco-pc indeed :-) Is there a(n optional) disk in this system? You mentioned SATA (vs USB 3) in an earlier email.
yes. i want to keep this very basic and achievable, and also realistically stand a chance of selecting alternative SoCs in the future. the future's going SATA-less (tablet s,tablets,tablets,tablets,tablets) and with USB3 being 5gbit/sec i don't see that as a problem.
putting down a USB-to-SATA IC would approximately double the components, and increase the risk. much better all round if people just add their own USB-to-SATA dongle.
I suspect that more memory would be useful. But, whatever: the project will have to walk before it can run.
... exactly. i already asked: it's $8,000 for a board-level redesign to add 2Gbyte RAM and 10/100/1000 Ethernet.
l.
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