[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Good ARM board for Debian?

On 9/26/2013 7:00 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Jerry Stuckle <jstuckle@attglobal.net> wrote:

Hi again, all,

Well, it looks like for several reasons the RaspberryPi won't work for this
project.  Can anyone recommend other ARM-based boards which run Wheezy well?

This is going to be a used as a monitor/controller, so major speed isn't a
factor.  It will mainly be using SPI and GPIO ports, plus ethernet for
communications.  Other things like graphics, USB ports, etc. are not
important for this project (but their presence doesn't rule the board out).


  from the specs you've given then something like an ARM Cortex
M0/M3/M4 would do.  one of the higher-end STM32Fs for example - those
have ethernet and they're amazingly low-power and very cheap.  i got a
waveshare port103R but apparently the 107R has an ethernet MAC.
http://www.wvshare.com/product/Port107V.htm  although, looking around
there's actually an SPI ethernet board
http://www.wvshare.com/product/ENC28J60-Ethernet-Board.htm

  so for $21 you could get the port103r and an extra $10 you get an
SPI-to-Ethernet adapter.

  but no, these won't run debian, but they _do_ have the advantage that
if you were to make this a production item (rather than a one-off)
you'd be looking at postage-stamp-sized PCBs almost.

l.
It does look interesting. However, it also seems to be a bit high priced for what you get - at least as compared to other options available.
And while size is always a consideration, it doesn't have to be that small. They'll have at least two other boards in the same package, possibly up to five (plus a Power Supply board), so a couple of inches either way is not all that important.
P.S. No need to CC: me. I'm subscribed to the list (and monitor it on Usenet). 

Jerry
Reply to: