Simtec Electronics launch an ARM9 based mini-ITX board
Oct 29th, 20:12 UTC
Simtec Electronics are pleased to announce the launch of their latest ARM board, based around the Samsung S3C2410 ARM9 processor. The board is a mini-ITX form factor and the total power consumption for even the highest specification board is less than 2W. Prices for these boards start at gbp175 for a single board, and drop to under gbp100 for large quantities.
The board is currently available in three standard configurations and fully custom boards can be manufactured on request. Features available include 256MB on board SDRAM, on-board NAND flash and a smart media slot, integral video with TV, VGA and LVDS panel link, integral audio, two 10/100Mbit network controllers, USB host interfaces, up to five uarts, IDE interfaces and PC104 expansion.
The board is supplied with 16Mb of FLASH ROM containing Simtec's ABLE firmware, ready to boot the chosen operating system. The supplied support CD contains a complete cross compiling GNU toolchain which is configured to produce example embedded applications including an electronic picture frame, simple thin client web browser, NAS unit and E-book reader. This enviroment allows developers to rapidly progress in the production of the target application without spending excessive setup and configuration time.
For applications with a requirement for a more complete operating system Simtec also provide linux kernels (binaries, patched sources and patch sets) and a GNU Debian Linux Operating system installer allowing the full range of Debian packages to be used.
Further information is available from Simtec's website.
(Submitted by Gavin Simpson of Simtec Electronics)
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