[9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

[9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

[Jack Norton]

All,

I just had to post this on 9fans.  Sorry if everyone has already seen it.
http://www.mini-box.com/pico-SAM9G45-X

It is $69 USD.  I can't even remember how the ARM port is going but this
might be some cheap hardware to get up and running.  I've never tried
getting an ARM board working under plan 9 so I am hesitant.  If I can
convince myself I've got the time, I will buy one.
They've even got schematics posted on their wiki (link can be found if
you follow the above URL).

-Jack

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

[ron minnich]

we used to buy lots of stuff from that company, they are really good
to deal with.

Geoff, does that cpu look vaguely compatible?

Can you tell if there is a JTAG port?

ron

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

[Nicolas Bercher]

On 24/06/2011 21:59, Jack Norton wrote:
> All,
>
> I just had to post this on 9fans. Sorry if everyone has already seen it.
> http://www.mini-box.com/pico-SAM9G45-X

Sorry, I have not such experience yet.  However, this site might interest people that care
about energy efficiency in their servers.

I discovered this vendor site one year ago while I was looking for very low-consumption
hardware pieces.  I have to say that they have really interesting power supplies (among
other hardware of course) called "PicoPSU": they are fanless, very-very small and have
~95% efficiency.  They are only DC/DC converters, so one must use an additional AC/DC
power supply (like laptop power supplies).  Of course the overall effiency of
"AC/DC-DC/DC" chain is still very interesting.

Nicolas

Re: [9fans] Cheap ARM board to play with

[hiro]

Do they really provide astonishingly great documentation or why do you
think are these boards worth the bucks?