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New architecture on my desk

Yesterday I unpacked Atmel NGW100 developer board. It is simple board without any whistles etc. but result is cheap device for those who wants to play with AVR32 architecture.

Board contains:

one serial port (female instead of male) two Ethernet ports (I got 40Mbps with iperf) USB device port SD/MMC socket JTAG connector 32MB sdram 16MB flash few expension connectors with extra signals footprint for [...]

New interesting devices

Recently few interesting devices appeared on a market. And they have high geek factor D:

SheevaPlug

SheevaPlug from Marvell contains MV88F6281 cpu running at 1.2GHz with 512MB of DDR2/800 memory. Other nice things are:

1GbE network controller 512MB of NAND for storage USB 2.0 controller (up to 480Mbps speed) RS232 serial port ARM JTAG SDIO slot U-boot as bootloader

Everything in small package and for [...]

Small does not mean powerless

Koen’s post about AVR32 Network Gateway and few posts on usenet reminded me that many people still think that small devices are crap and lack power to do anything.

Do they? I think that not. Here I use two small embedded devices:

Linksys NSLU2 as NFS server (plans are to add TFTP, Samba, CUPS and Bluetooth AP) Linksys [...]

Sharp Zaurus JTAG cable

From time to time people are asking about schematics of JTAG cable for Zaurus machines. Such cable can be used to restore flash memory content after destroying it.

For all models newer then collie (SL-5000/5500) there is a hope still as they are much harder to brick. User can enter “Diagnostics menu” via magic keycombo (which [...]