Re: Good ARM board for Debian?
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.
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