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If you have a project that needs low-power hardware and the power and versatility of Linux then one of the many ARM development systems may well suit your needs. We can advise on what is available, and supply appropriate distributions and hardware. Our book, the 'Guide to ARMLinux for Developers' should be an invaluable aid for those who wish to get up to speed on the subject.
There are a great number of boards out there to suit a range of target markets. The prices and specs vary a great deal, but they also have many of the fundamentals in common. We maintain a list of generally-available development boards.
Below we describe some hardware we are particularly familiar with because we sell it, develop on it, or help develop it.
Balloon is a development board particularly suited to smaller organisations that need specific hardware but do not have the time or resources to design it themselves. The base board offers CPU, RAM, NOR lfash, NAND flash, Smartmedia, Compact flash, expansion connector and USB (slave and host), LCD support, Audio, as well as various power-supply options (6-40V, 5V, 3.3V). Any other IO can be attached via the expansion connector. It is available in specific builds with whichever of the options you need in volumes as small as 25 boards. Techical details are available on the balloon developers website.
If you are looking for relatively inexpensive hardware, particularly good for a college project, a small development system, or a range of vertical applications, then you should look at the LART. This is an open hardware design based on the SA1100. It is physically small and can have stacked daughterboards to supply whatever IO you need.
These boards are nolonger available from us as parts have become too dificult to obtain.
The KSB and ethernet boards are still available giving you lots of IO and network possibilities for your LART.
The 'Guide to ARMLinux for Developers' also explicitly covers the Intel Assabet/Neponset (SA1110/SA1111) development boards, and the forthcoming IQ80310 Xscale dev boards. We are grateful to Intel for their support in this. The boards themselves are avilable directly from Intel.
We are also actively involved in the design of next-generation (SA1110, SDRAM instead of EDO RAM) small-footprint StrongARM cards. We will offer this device as development kits when they become available.
Available Q4 2002
Last Updated: 2003.10.07
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