[Arm-netbook] [status] eoma68-ic1t

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

cpu cards being like buses, you wait for ages then 3 come along at
once.  i have been in touch with icubecorp, they have that awesome
hybrid VPU/GPU/CPU core, and they decided to do a sub-$2.50 55nm
210-pin QFP out of it, running at 400mhz but quad-threaded.  it's
capable (on its own) of 720p video decode and 3D graphics *entirely*
in software.  the down-side is that this revision was designed as a
low-entry android or embedded controller IC, so can only do up to
512mb RAM.  they can do a respin but only with a large enough order.

this will be one of the very first FSF-Endorseable CPU Cards and it
will be the precursor to a more powerful version which we will do
later.  the BOM is something staggering like only $12 and that's
including a SMC9514 USB-Ethernet Hub.  it is juuuust about EOMA68
compliant and the only extra interface will be an SD/MMC card.  it
will boot from SPI NOR Flash so that will be deliberately very small
(enough to hold a bootloader).

l.