On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Frank Carmickle <[email protected]> wrote: > > The 330 boards are a little more power hungry but you get a dual core 64 bit > processor. As far as I'm concerned the performance increase is well worth > the extra money. You still well below the power consumption of any other 64 > bit dual core machines. > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121383 > > --FC >
While these are low power when compared to traditional desktop/server systems, they're not what I would consider to be embedded. The CPU requires a fan (embedded no-no) and between the chipset and CPU they draw several times more power than a traditional embedded system. The ALIX and Soekris boards run with 12 watt power supplies (12v, 1 amp). The Atom 330 alone can draw 8 watts. This is still impressive for a processor of this class but it's not what I would consider to be embedded, yet... I think of embedded systems like this: Blackfin - Very low power, good performance (especially for DSP), very difficult porting (usually) ARM/MIPS - Very low power, decent performance depending on application, mild difficulty in porting X86 (Geode, etc) - Pretty low power, decent performance, relative ease in "porting" (often none) Everything else - You should probably call it an "appliance", not an embedded system With the correct target application and design ARM and Geode systems can provide more than enough CPU power for many, many practical applications. -- Kristian Kielhofner http://www.astlinux.org http://blog.krisk.org http://www.star2star.com http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.voalte.com _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org
