[hpsdr] Beagleboard and Hawkboard development issues.

[Aivars Straupe]

János You made really big and usefull research.
But as somebody ask here about Atom or like that replacement, I repeat my old post about that:

I want to start new discussion about CPU board for HPSDR.
 I found on internet few interesting solutions from www.compulab.co.il
1. http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2/html/fitpc2-datasheet.htm
ready computer in really small box, pico-itx I guess.
2. just motherboard from fitpc2: http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2/html/fitpc2-sb-datasheet.htm
3. and most exciting: http://www.compulab.co.il/iam/html/iam-cm-datasheet.htm 
 And very small power consumption for all of these, just one power source (5V). May be it's possible put CM-iAM in Atlas slot.

 There are few problems with this solutions: 
1.they are not cheap, I could say, expensive;
2. for me that's not clear; is there enough performance to run PSDR on this boards;
3. And biggest one (from site): CompuLab sells products only to commercial companies which are developing projects having commercial potential. CompuLab does not sell to non-commercial entities, including individuals, students and research institutions.
  I found different small foot print Atom Mainboards on internet, but they all are more expensive. My thoughts, if there are possible find at least 100 hams, who are interested to build small system for HPSDR. Then it's became interesting. May be there are replacement for SBC-FITPC2. I didn't find reasonable. If build Hermes for example with SBC-FITPC2, system size became very interesting ;-) 

On that site appears something new as well. But discussion about that ended with nothing. It could be Beagleboard or Hawkboard are more reasonable offer, but it's better when You have a choice ;-)

73!!!                                                                                                    Aivars.


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