From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: "Trenton D. Adams" Cc: eCos mailing list Subject: RE: [ECOS] Good board for audio + USB Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:48:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <000501c113a6$8b38aa10$090110ac@TRENT> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00707.html On 23-Jul-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote: > > On 23-Jul-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote: > > > I'm thinking of playing with some audio as well as USB connections > > with > > > windows. I was wondering if anyone here might know a good cheap > > > development board for things like that. It would be nice to have > a > > > hardware MP3 codec I possible. > > > > > > > I know nothing of cost, but here are some choices: > > > > * Cirrus Logic EDB7212 > > > > * Any ARM/SA11x0 based platform: > > Assabet (from Intel) > > iPAQ (from Compaq) > > 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. > > 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.