Low-cost ARM processor board with 4 (or more) UART

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Low-cost ARM processor board with 4 (or more) UART Albert Goodwill 11-04-2008
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Posted by Albert Goodwill on November 4, 2008, 5:41 am
Hello,

Do you know any low-cost, small size, commercially-off-the-shelf ARM
processor board with four (or more) UART (preferably with Linux) ?

Thx

albertgoodwill at gmail com

Posted by Jim Hicinbothom on November 8, 2008, 2:06 pm
Albert Goodwill wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Do you know any low-cost, small size, commercially-off-the-shelf ARM
> processor board with four (or more) UART (preferably with Linux) ?
>
> Thx
>
> albertgoodwill at gmail com

Not quite what you asked for, but have you looked at BeagleBoard.org?
Very nice fairly advanced ARM board small enough for many bot apps (USB).

Jim

Posted by Larry on November 17, 2008, 2:18 pm
> Albert Goodwill wrote:
> > Do you know any low-cost, small size, commercially-off-the-shelf ARM
> > processor board with four (or more) UART (preferably with Linux) ?

If you can do without LINUX, you might look at the Cortex chips from
STM or Luminary Micro.
(NXP announced, but isn't shipping yet.)
There are boards based on the STM32 available from Olimex, sparkfun,
etc.
I believe there are ports of freeRTOS and/or eCOS either available or
being worked on.

Note: sparkfun appears to be out of stock; I just ordered another
minimal board from futurelex.com "ET-STM32 Stamp Module"
This lacks a JTAG connector (and I've never ordered from this Co.
before), but the price ($25 is right for a little experimenting, and
it has more flash and RAM. I guess I'll have to make do with serial
download, for now.
URL: http://www.futurlec.com/ET-STM32_Stamp.shtml

HTH,

Larry Pfeffer



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