From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dan Conti" To: "eCos mailing list" Subject: RE: [ECOS] Good board for audio + USB Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:41:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00712.html 90% of the digital audio players (which typically feature digital audio and usb) out there use the cirrus design. >From what i understand, the ipaq is very similar to the strongarm reference designs, but i haven't played with it myself. The advantage of the ipaq would be that it's available on the street and it's cheap. There's also a big speed difference between the cirrus parts (which max out at 90mHz) and the strongarms (which clock at 200mHz or so). -Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Trenton D. Adams [ mailto:tadams@extremeeng.com ] > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:54 AM > To: 'Gary Thomas' > Cc: 'eCos mailing list' > Subject: RE: [ECOS] Good board for audio + USB > > > > > > > > Thanks Gary. > > > > > > Where can I get information on the iPAQ? From what Compaq's > website > > > says, it's a handheld PC. Isn't there a development board? > > > > What more do you want? Do you want to be able to solder > wires onto > it? > > If that's the case, stay away from the iPAQ (and most other PDA > consumer > > devices). If all you want to do is experiment with audio and USB, > etc, > > then it's quite complete and well packaged. > > > > I'm thinking along the lines of eventually creating some embedded > systems based off of the development board I use. If the > iPAQ provides > circuit diagrams and stuff, then it might be sufficient. > > > > > > > Information on the SA11x0 boards is very hard to find on Intel's > > website > > > as well. At least a search came up with something. > > > > > > > Intel doesn't have a good plan here. The Assabet is old and > probably > > will > > be replaced with something new sometime soon, but I don't have any > solid > > info about that. > > What would be recommend for me based on the information I've given so > far? > >