Peter Stuge wrote:
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 01:26:31PM +0200, Indrek Kruusa wrote:
For current Thincan (artecgroup/dbe61) development we are using our own designed dongles:
http://208.109.65.208/products/hardware-products/programmable-lpc-dongle.htm...
Very nice!
Hm, there is even a web page. Nice to know :)
- LPC connector (the cable shouldn't be longer than 5cm/2 inch)
- Altera Cyclone FPGA as the control part
- 16 MB flash: 4x separate 4MB banks; chosen by jumpers (I can have 4
separate booting configs( LB/kernel/initrd) in one dongle)
- chosen flash bank is seen as 1MB at boot, switched to 4MB mode by
LinuxBIOS. After that you can address that 4MB by FILO as mem@0x....
- 4 digit LED display (POST code display + selftest)
- miniUSB (by ftdi chip) for the programming flash banks
- python script as programming tool
That's a serial emulation, right? How long does it take to program one bank?
Yes, it is emulation. It takes ca. 20 s to flash the 256K LinuxBIOS. Flashing a bigger binary takes proportionally more time. Usually I change one thing at a time (e.g. only kernel) so the need to flash the whole 4MB is quite rare.
PCB is 8cm x 6cm, i have seen the case for that unit too :)
As much as I know this dongle were made available with initial price ca. ?90 (in small quantities). I'd expect that such a thing (with somewhat different design) can't be much cheaper.
Is that EUR90 or USD90? Either way I agree - it's a good price!
EUR90.
I want one. :)
You are welcome! :) Guys from info@artecgroup.com can give you more information about that.
Do you also have a PLCC adapter?
Nope.
thanks, Indrek
I looked into the product sold by Segor (that Carl-Daniel linked to) and found that it's made by cab GmbH:
http://www.cabgmbh.com/englisch/index.cfm?fuseaction=elektronik&rubrik=S...
//Peter