Chinnmaya Murali
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Mon Dec 06, 2004 12:22 pm Post subject:
popular educational development boards |
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hi,
my friend is in china(near shanghai) for another 10 days and i want
him to bring some development boards for me which i plan to use in my
teaching courses. i have been talking to him since last 2-3 days and
its utter confusion for me. can you people suggest me some good
educational development boards? a list of most popular ones will do
for me as i don't have specific requirements(except 'low cost'). i
wanted the board to run some flavour of linux, could connect through
serial port/minicom, have atleast one ethernet port. i want to develop
C programs for that board. i currently use AD6489(MIPS arch) based dev
board. i run uClinux on it, it has two ehternet ports etc. I first
decided to buy Atmel EB40(A) board after reading Lewis Edwards'
shoestring book, but that board is not available in china. In china,
my friend suggested (EasyARM 4510), (DJT - 44B0) - both cost around
$80. Also DK3200A, EasyARM 2104 - for about $40. but then he said the
documentation is in chinese! i did not find too much info about theses
boards on google. so now what i decided is: to go with a popular board
so that i can throw the chinese doc that comes with the board and rely
on internet for the same. so can you people suggest me popular dev
boards (of the kind EB40A, AD6489, EasyARM 4510, DJT-44BO etc) ?
someone also told me that i can take any board with ARM 32-bit arch
and i can get help on the internet, is it true? what about doc on
settings specific to the board?
also does anyone know of an IRC channel where i could discuss my
problem?
thanks a lot
murali. |
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Leon Heller
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Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject:
Re: popular educational development boards |
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"Chinnmaya Murali" <chinnmaya@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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| Quote: | hi,
my friend is in china(near shanghai) for another 10 days and i want
him to bring some development boards for me which i plan to use in my
teaching courses. i have been talking to him since last 2-3 days and
its utter confusion for me. can you people suggest me some good
educational development boards? a list of most popular ones will do
for me as i don't have specific requirements(except 'low cost'). i
wanted the board to run some flavour of linux, could connect through
serial port/minicom, have atleast one ethernet port. i want to develop
C programs for that board. i currently use AD6489(MIPS arch) based dev
board. i run uClinux on it, it has two ehternet ports etc. I first
decided to buy Atmel EB40(A) board after reading Lewis Edwards'
shoestring book, but that board is not available in china. In china,
my friend suggested (EasyARM 4510), (DJT - 44B0) - both cost around
$80. Also DK3200A, EasyARM 2104 - for about $40. but then he said the
documentation is in chinese! i did not find too much info about theses
boards on google. so now what i decided is: to go with a popular board
so that i can throw the chinese doc that comes with the board and rely
on internet for the same. so can you people suggest me popular dev
boards (of the kind EB40A, AD6489, EasyARM 4510, DJT-44BO etc) ?
someone also told me that i can take any board with ARM 32-bit arch
and i can get help on the internet, is it true? what about doc on
settings specific to the board?
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Try Olimex (http://www.olimex.com) for low-cost boards using the Philips
LPC2000 ARM chips.
Leon
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