[Arm-netbook] [status] eoma68-ic1t

[Ken Phillis Jr]

This is an interesting idea, but some more details are needed on the
SoC. The reason for this is that the IC3118 is missing important
features like USB OTG, Nand, HDMI/DVI, and Image Decoder. ( There is
also mention that this chip can only decode 480p via software ). There
is another chip that features all of this and more, but I do not see
as much details and that is the IC3228.

Also as a note, I do note that both chips use the same cores ( A
custom RISC core with 150 instructions )

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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