Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2060 from 2003/6/4
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amigadave schrieb:
Such a low price board would not need to be too much more powerful than the Efika is/was, but the issues of low RAM amount and poor USB performance could be fixed, as well as the IDE interface, or hopefully it would have SATA instead.
The 5125 has usb 2.0 high speed but no sata. Instead I'd go for a SDHC card (SDHC controller inbuild, 200 Mbps) for the system and some stuff. Mass storage would be accessed by usb or ethernet. It is a real complete SoC. And it costs only about US$ 11 (bulk volume, 10k). There is really not much needed to add to the 5125. With *real* bulk volume I guess a 50 US$ board including 256-512 MB RAM would be possible. In lower volume <80 US $ sould be possible though.
At 1 W it offers an e300/400 core just like the Efika 5200B. Not a rocket, but pretty useable. The inbuild gfx of the 5121 is rather weak though but goes up to WGXA reslution. For the tinkerer it has CAN, I2C and quite some other stuff. At that low cost, low wattage and simplicity I think it would gain some interest in several markets.
I think that chip literally cries for an ultra low cost board - and while I cannot make that happen myself now, I would seriously consider to join such an attempt if others participate.
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