20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
6:05 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:21:24 -0400 Dan Roganti <ragooman at comcast.net>
wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
You might want to look at Luminary Micro's Stellaris LM3S6965
Evaluation Kit ($99 @ Digi-key <http://www.luminarymicro.com/products/
ekc-lm3s6965_ethernet_evaluation_kit.html>). The beast is an ARM
Cortex with USB and Ethernet along with a bunch of I/O. There is GNU
support as well as several eval compilers. Fun toy.
CRC
Grant Stockly wrote:
There's already an inexpensive eZ80F91 development board from Zilog
for
the budget conscious -only $99. And it's complete with cables, jtag
debugger, IDE, and C compiler. It has an ethernet port among other
interfaces. It doesn't have USB, but easily done with a RS232-USB
converter. The expansion interface provides all the GPIO's to let you
connect a floppy interface.And it's available from Mouser or Digikey.
http://www.zilog.com/products/partdetails.asp?id=eZ80F910200ZCO The base eZ80SBC from howard is $250. Add $100
for the disk
board...
Hmmm, I suppose if a SASI interface and ST412 interface could be
added
to talk to those kind of devices too, $250 wouldn't be too bad for
the
'core' portion. $350 for just a floppy interface is perhaps a little
on the high side, though.
(Someone here was working on a generic ST412 interface - presumably
over-sampling tack data and processing in software - weren't they?
Can't remember who it was now...)