[Tyler]

Brains for Hot Robots
     


Italian microcontroller company, Dave, has announced a new board based on
TI's Sitara
AM3505/AM3517 SoCs that may be just what you need for that robot
you're about to send into the desert (or the Arctic). The new board is
called the Lizard
and it tolerates temperatures ranging from -40 F to 185 F. The
Superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 processor clocks in at 500MHz. You get 256MB
of DDR2 RAM, 2GB of NAND flash, 2 SD flash expansion ports, OpenGL
acceleration, touchscreen controller, fast ethernet port, 2 USB host
ports, 1 USB OTG port, CAN, 3 UARTs, 2 I2C, SPI, I2S, a keypad
controller, JTAG, and some GPIO. Yes, it runs GNU/Linux. But be prepared
to spend some money because those temperature tolerances come at the
cost of $748 USD. For more details see the Linuxdevices.com
article or Dave's Lizard
press release (PDF format).
   

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