Low power, small embedded Linux board with multiple serial ports

I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to be 
carried on a model airplane.

Linux box must have
    * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
    * 128-256MB memory
    * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
    * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
    * a wireless LAN (optional)

Can anybody help with this ?

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:15:37 +1000, <Hans Umar> wrote:

> I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to be
> carried on a model airplane.
>
> Linux box must have
>     * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
>     * 128-256MB memory
>     * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
>     * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
>     * a wireless LAN (optional)
>
> Can anybody help with this ?

Presumably you also have some weight and size requirements?

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:15:37 +1000, Han wrote:

> I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to be 
> carried on a model airplane.
> 
> Linux box must have
>     * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
>     * 128-256MB memory
>     * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
>     * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
>     * a wireless LAN (optional)
> 
> Can anybody help with this ?

nano-itx should be out one of these days - see www.mini-itx.com

"ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
news:2qpi76F12bsltU2@uni-berlin.de...
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:15:37 +1000, Han wrote:
>
> > I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board
to be
> > carried on a model airplane.
> >
> > Linux box must have
> >     * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
> >     * 128-256MB memory
> >     * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
> >     * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
> >     * a wireless LAN (optional)
> >
> > Can anybody help with this ?
>
> nano-itx should be out one of these days - see www.mini-itx.com
>

Look for example http://www.linuxdevices.com
I think that you can expect to consume far less than 5 W...

Pygmi

Hans Umar wrote:
> I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to be 
> carried on a model airplane.
> 
> Linux box must have
>     * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
>     * 128-256MB memory
>     * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
>     * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
>     * a wireless LAN (optional)
> 
> Can anybody help with this ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
The TS-7200 is kind of fun.
Though not exactly meeting your criterion, it could be a fun device for 
you to get into your project specification. It has 2 serial ports but 
can support USB serial ports.
We are currently "playing with this".
Find it at www.embeddedarm.com
T.

In article <41470b19$0$5727$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,  <Hans Umar> wrote:
>I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to be 
>carried on a model airplane.
[...req's snipped...]

I know nothing about these guys other than what's on their website,
but they seem to be aimed squarely at the lightweight-Linux-box 
niche:
   http://www.gumstix.com/products.html

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Anthony Marchini wrote:

> Hans Umar wrote:
>> I am looking a low power (less than 5watt), small embedded Linux board to
>> be carried on a model airplane.
>> 
>> Linux box must have
>>     * Flash Disk (64-128MB)
>>     * 128-256MB memory
>>     * at least 3 serial ports (RS232)
>>     * a parallel printer port (to be used as digital I/O)
>>     * a wireless LAN (optional)
>> 
>> Can anybody help with this ?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> The TS-7200 is kind of fun.
> Though not exactly meeting your criterion, it could be a fun device for
> you to get into your project specification. It has 2 serial ports but
> can support USB serial ports.
> We are currently "playing with this".
> Find it at www.embeddedarm.com
> T.

This is a most excellent link. Thank you.

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Jerry McBride wrote:

> Anthony Marchini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>
>>The TS-7200 is kind of fun.
>>Though not exactly meeting your criterion, it could be a fun device for
>>you to get into your project specification. It has 2 serial ports but
>>can support USB serial ports.
>>We are currently "playing with this".
>>Find it at www.embeddedarm.com
>>T.
> 
> 
> This is a most excellent link. Thank you.
> 
It is a rather neat board, I caught myself marveling at its capabilites 
then I remembered that I used to work at a company that 12 years ago ran 
a plant running 100 remote monitoring devices and handled 10 or more 
individual users on a wickedly fast (at the time) 386 compaq running at 
33Mhz I think. Granted we had a 320 Megabyte hard drive, significantly 
larger than the one the 256CF card the development system on this board 
uses, but then we only had 3Meg of RAM in this thing , not 32Megabytes. 
Of course the serial ports were handled by dedicated serial 
concentrators, which significantly offloaded that work for the processor.
Anyways, its a nice platform for development work.
The www.gumstix.com product is interesting too (from another poster), 
only it doesn't appear to have a direct I/O capabilities, and it doens't 
have an Ethernet port. It is a lot more powerful.
T.

In article <qWH3d.16$Xy5.6@fe61.usenetserver.com>, Anthony Marchini <a.marchini@mericonlokorDot.net> writes:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
>> Anthony Marchini wrote:
>>>
>>>The TS-7200 is kind of fun.
>>>Though not exactly meeting your criterion, it could be a fun device for
>>>you to get into your project specification. It has 2 serial ports but
>>>can support USB serial ports.
>>>We are currently "playing with this".
>>>Find it at www.embeddedarm.com
>>>T.
>> 
>> This is a most excellent link. Thank you.
>> 
> It is a rather neat board,

[snip]

I fully agree. Does anyone know if any ARM boards with similar capabilities
are sold at this kind of price within the UK ?

Also, does anyone know when the nano-itx boards are actually going to
start becoming available ? (It must be a year now since they were announced)

Thanks for any information,

Simon.

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Simon Clubley wrote:

> In article <qWH3d.16$Xy5.6@fe61.usenetserver.com>, Anthony Marchini <a.marchini@mericonlokorDot.net> writes:
> 
>>Jerry McBride wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anthony Marchini wrote:
>>>
>>>>The TS-7200 is kind of fun.
>>>>Though not exactly meeting your criterion, it could be a fun device for
>>>>you to get into your project specification. It has 2 serial ports but
>>>>can support USB serial ports.
>>>>We are currently "playing with this".
>>>>Find it at www.embeddedarm.com
>>>>T.
>>>
>>>This is a most excellent link. Thank you.
>>>
>>
>>It is a rather neat board,
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I fully agree. Does anyone know if any ARM boards with similar capabilities
> are sold at this kind of price within the UK ?
> 
> Also, does anyone know when the nano-itx boards are actually going to
> start becoming available ? (It must be a year now since they were announced)
> 
> Thanks for any information,
> 
> Simon.
> 
Buy a bunch of them, ask for a deal and become an official distributor.
And then keep a few for artistic play for yourself ;)

Tony