On 12 May 2013, at 23:42, Charlie Peck wrote: > On May 12, 2013, at 3:11 PM, "Lux, Jim (337C)" <james.p....@jpl.nasa.gov> > wrote: > > I sent a couple of students off with rPi boards recently to see if we could > do just that. Unfortunately their report wasn't good, they had reliability > problems and having only the HDMI video made working with them difficult. > We're thinking about looking at PC104 formfactor boards again to see if we > can find something in that range that would work. Our goal is to produce > something that's truly carry-on (we have a MicroFe design now that's 2 > Mini-ITX boards in a Pelican briefcase that BCCD developers use but we'd like > more cores). > >> And LittleFE is truly commodity.. The architecture doesn't care which >> Mini-ITX mobo you get.. If you want to stack up Intel D2550s instead of >> the Via boards, it's no real matter. > > The latest model of LittleFe does use Atom D2550's, and we're looking at AMD > based APU units for the future. One of our design goals is to provide a > platform that people could easily build any Mini-ITX based system on, we sell > the frame kit separately for just this reason.
The "Minnow Board" http://www.minnowboard.org/ might be of interest, though it doesn't quite seem to be out yet, and there's no price there yet. (Disclaimer, since this is a new thread: I work for Intel, though not on anything to do with this). -- -- Jim -- James Cownie <jcow...@cantab.net>
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