[Arm-netbook] Grain-media chips / openipcam - anyone has experience with them?

[joem]

On Sat, 2013-02-23 at 18:09 +0200, krasi gichev wrote:
> Surely they cannot match the A10 or other Cortex-Ax SoCs in terms of
> CPU power. And it is not a SoC that can be used for EOMA board. But I
> was thinking for board that could be made available in the price range
> of Olimex's imx233 micro (25 euro) but with LAN. Another similar
> products were the old Cavium chips, but the core used there is even
> slower (250MHz ARMv4) and there is no display interface.
> There are not so many SoCs that package so much features within TQFP,
> and also allowing 2-layer PCB. A13 is TQFP but you need 4-layers.
> BOM saving is not the only thing about integrated PHY. Surely it will
> make the chip hotter but many of MIPS based router SoCs integrate 5x
> PHYs in same package.
> Using only 3.3V means cheap power circuit (but having internal 2.5V
> LDO means more heat ...)
> Having interface to simple LCD, and TV out (PAL) is also tempting. Not
> sure about the usefullness of the video input port (recently somebody
> on this list asked for those features so obviously it could be used,
> and having HW H.264 encoder can be considered as benefit in this
> scenario).
> About those 90nm - not sure about the iMX233, but iMX351 is also built
> on 90nm and runs at 533MHz:
> "i.MX351 is based on an ARM11™ core running at 532 MHz with 90 nm
> technology"

As far as I can tell - its all uCLinux and no MMU - kills a lot of
projects.


> 
> 
> 2013/2/23 luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com>
>         On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:59 AM, krasi gichev
>         <krasimirr at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         > I saw the GM8126 / GM8128 chips from grain-media:
>         >
>         > www.grain-media.com
>         >
>         > and then I found a lot of info:
>         >
>         > http://www.openipcam.com/files/ARM9/GM8126/
>         >
>         > Those SoC are relatively slow (ARMv5 compilant core at
>         533MHz), surely. But
>         > they pack a lot of peripherals:
>         > - 10/100 ethernet with intergrated PHY (!!!)
>         
>         
>          integrated PHY??  oo - that saves about $1.50 on the BOM.
>         
>          ARM9 though... mmmm....
>         
>          l.
>         
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