Martin List-Petersen wrote:
>>For a similar price range (I think - haven't priced them personally,
>>just played with them at work) there's the Netburner mod5282, based
>>on a 66MHz Motorola Coldfire, runs ucLinux and such. They have a NIC
>>and lots of I/O, but no USB.
>> Very nice, i must say.
>> Have you had a look at the Mod 5272 ?
Nope, just been using the Mod5282 to prototype another hardware design
with an integrated 5282 Coldfire MPU, and give the high level software
guys a target to play with while we finalise the hardware design. I must
say I like the 5282 - stacks of peripherals, and enough flash and
RAM on-chip to run in single chip mode for simple applications,
particularly if you don't need an OS and the associated overhead. The
68000 instruction set is nice if you're hitting low level stuff too,
and the background debugging support is downright luxurious :) When ah
wor lad, us 'ad to watch buses on logic analyser! (wanders off muttering
something about how the youth of today don't know 'ow good they 'ave it)
> It has USB and instead only 2 UARTs, less timers and less digital I/O, but 2 MB flash (instead of the 512k, that the 5282 has).
> They stripped the I2C and A/D inputs also. But if you look at the specs, it looks quite ok for most applications.
Depends entirely on what you want to do of course :)
cjb
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