[time-nuts] single board PCs

[Daniel Mendes]

Seems that you need windows, so you need x86. I would go with some 
miniITX with Atom or AMD E-350.

A datapoint: I have 2 netbooks (don´t ask me why). One has an atom Z520 
@ 1.33GHz. The other has an AMD E-350 dual core @1.6GHz. The Atom is a 
pile of crap. The AMD is very useable.
There are newer versions of both chips that maybe change things around.

IF you don´t need windows, I have 2 ideas for you:

1) Pandaboard - Dual core cortex A9. I run it in a few projets. Works OK 
with Linux. Please add an small radiaton on top of the chip (It works ok 
without one for a few hours, even at 100% CPU usage, but long term it 
will fail).

2) MCIMX6Q-SL - Quad core cortex A9. Never used, but seems good: more 
processing power than the Pandaboard, SATA interface.... i´ll buy one 
someday.

Daniel

Em 06/01/2013 22:25, Jim Lux escreveu:
> Consulting the hive mind..
> If you're building a standalone widget (e.g. something like an NTP 
> server we've been discussing,  etc.)  with an embedded PC, don't want 
> to fool with hardware designing, etc.; use off the shelf OSes (win and 
> Linux) and software (Matlab, Labview); have solid state boot/storage 
> media.. No user interface needed (access is solely via network)...
>
> What's the hot ticket these days..
> One of the CarPC things (most are a miniITX/miniATX with a USB or SD 
> "disk drive"). (This is what I used last time)
>
> Raspberry Pi is a possibility, but I don't know that it has the oomph 
> to run things like Matlab: and I suspect it doesn't run Windows....
>
> I'd like something I can just order and give to the software guys to 
> start coding on (they're using Matlab, Labview, and Python, in various 
> combinations).  Eventually, it will  be packaged "inside the box" 
> which is about 10x10x3" along with the GPS receiver and other 
> measuremnet stuff (an FPGA with counters and the like). The FPGA will 
> use USB for an interface (I think..)..
>
>
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