[Arm-netbook] EOMA-68 Micro Engineering Board PCBs (was: eoma-68 micro engineering boards: anyone need one?

[Christopher Thomas]

Well, I'm an idiot...

IT DOES SUPPORT LINUX!

http://www.smsc.com/Technologies/ViewSpan/UFX6000/Download


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Thomas <
christopher at firemothindustries.com> wrote:

> Not bad, but it's a 225pin LFBGA, and currently only has drivers for
> Windows. I can solder it in house, but I'm not so sure most other people
> could, and it's not exactly something we could use quickly for prototyping.
>
>
> That said, I think you're spot on in using it or something similar, as a
> diverse USB/DVI PHY interface for the EOMA68 cards. It has some VERY
> Impressive features, and supports a vast array of video output options. I'd
> love to use it in a minimal interface card, but it has to support *Nix. (Or
> more specifically, *Linux has to support it).
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss at mtu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Christopher Thomas <christopher <at> firemothindustries.com> writes:
>> >
>> > If someone wants to make the PCB Gerber I can do a small batch of 5. I
>> was
>> just going to do a quick and dirty on perfboard.  My TFP401a arrives
>> tomorrow.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton <at>
>> gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Christopher Thomas
>> > <christopher <at> firemothindustries.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > All Components are scheduled to Arrive on Wednesday July 10th, I will
>> > > proceed to assemble and fully test one card before assembling the
>> rest to
>> > > insure all components function correctly.
>> >  we reaaallly need to get the pass-through card made up [*1]
>> >  l.
>> > [*1]
>> http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68/Passthrough
>>
>>
>> I found this, a USB 2.0 connected chip with an RGB output.  It also looks
>> like it connects to I2C.  So, for a convenient EOMA-68 "passthrough", a
>> USB
>> hub connecting to this chip and also to the USB pins looks like an option.
>>
>> http://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/UFX6000-VE.pdf
>>
>> Or something like it.  No, it's not a video-passthrough, but it does turn
>> an
>> EOMA-68 compliant device into a USB-attached screen.
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>
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