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Heath Holcomb wrote: |
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> I'm a hardware engineer (BS in Electronics Engineering, Texas A&M) and I did |
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> the x86 how-to for embedded gentoo. I've got a new project at my work, to |
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> design a ARM based SBC (single board computer) for our main product. I'll |
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> actually be doing the schematic entry and PCB layout. |
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> The specific part is Cirrus Logic EP9315, it's an ARM920T based chip. It has |
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> the SDRAM interface, flash interface (NOR), MAC (not PHY), and an MMU. |
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> Any advice on this chip or any ARM would be nice. I plan on use embedded |
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> Gentoo as the base of our OS. The development board comes with CE 5.0 and |
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> Linux (Debian based). There is a lot of unknowns (how does Linux fit onto |
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> the NOR flash, what about the file system, etc...), so any help would be |
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> appreciated if anyone has done this before. |
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> I'll also be adding a section to the how-to that deals with ARM based devices. |
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JTAG is always nice. SD/SmartMedia/CompactFlash is cool. |
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What's the specific purpose of the board? What kind of product, |
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or just an embedded board to sell to others? |
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James |
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