<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
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.<br><div style>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.</div>
<div style>Using only 3.3V means cheap power circuit (but having internal 2.5V LDO means more heat ...)</div><div style>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).</div>
<div style>About those 90nm - not sure about the iMX233, but iMX351 is also built on 90nm and runs at 533MHz:</div><div style>"<span style="color:rgb(81,98,111);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">i.MX351 is based on an ARM11™ core running at 532 MHz with 90 nm technology</span>"</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/23 luke.leighton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.leighton@gmail.com" target="_blank">luke.leighton@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:59 AM, krasi gichev <<a href="mailto:krasimirr@gmail.com">krasimirr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> I saw the GM8126 / GM8128 chips from grain-media:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.grain-media.com" target="_blank">www.grain-media.com</a><br>
><br>
> and then I found a lot of info:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.openipcam.com/files/ARM9/GM8126/" target="_blank">http://www.openipcam.com/files/ARM9/GM8126/</a><br>
><br>
> Those SoC are relatively slow (ARMv5 compilant core at 533MHz), surely. But<br>
> they pack a lot of peripherals:<br>
> - 10/100 ethernet with intergrated PHY (!!!)<br>
<br>
</div> integrated PHY?? oo - that saves about $1.50 on the BOM.<br>
<br>
ARM9 though... mmmm....<br>
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l.<br>
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