[Arm-netbook] NuSmartTM 2816

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Tue Jan 17 17:40:45 GMT 2012


On 01/17/2012 11:30 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On a conceptually related note, my Compulab SBC-A510 boards arrived. 
> Once I have them working I'm going to try to find one of those 
> mini-PCIe Volari cards and see how well they work. For possible future 
> relevance - what SoCs are available that don't have a GPU at all? Off 
> the top of my head I can only think of Marvell Kirkwood, but there 
> must be more. Perhaps it might be worthwhile investigating GPU-less 
> SoCs that have either PCIe (for Volari) or USB (for MIMO if that has 
> open specs - but being USB, MIMO should be pretty easy to reverse 
> engineer the spec for).

What is the power consumption of the Kirkwood + Volari?

Kirwood or other ARM SOC with PCIe could be matched with an ATI GPU. I 
looked at this 2+ years ago. Use a low core speed and only as few stream 
processors as you want to meet your max power consumption.

On the other hand I'm pretty sure I'll spin a AMD APU EOMA68 card anyway.

-Bari



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