Again Peter, very nice:)
I will give you one more tid bit as it consumes less power than the Axis, but still runs Linux and is quite small:) Check out: http://www.brightstareng.com/ They have entire set ups on a form factor less than a credit card Running Linux:) Although it is still not a PIC, it is very good For PIC type needs.
Thanks again, Dave:)
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-admin@clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Peter Stuge Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:54 PM To: LinuxBIOS Subject: Re: off-topic: PIC and ETRAX [was: Memtest+]
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:25:47PM -0500, Dave Aubin wrote:
Nice read Peter, thank you for the info:)
No problem!
Would be nice to use some voltage reference differencing Instead of using a Max 232, but the Max is probably a cleaner approach.
The MAX232 is pretty common for connecting both PIC and AVR devices to RS-232 equipment. It just needs a few external capacitors, which is nice.
A nerdy aside, I heard the 18F4550 and 18F2550 can run up to 12MIPs from a 4MHz crystal, they've got a whopping 16K of flash, and they have a Full-Speed USB v2.0 hardware.
Yep. And 2kb RAM. Check out the data sheet page 11 and chapter 2. http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39632b.pdf
Now if I could only run Linux on a PIC;)
Linux? That's for the ETRAX, made by Axis. Check out http://developer.axis.com/
Everything-is-included Linux chip with 10/100 and both NOR and NAND flash for boot as well as storage. They've ported the GNU toolchain too.
I'm still waiting for some project where I can use the MCM and end up with a few extra boards. :)
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