Dale Ghent <daleg@thermite.digex.net> wrote: : Jonathan Nesbitt <ra8862@email.sps.mot.com> shaped the electrons to say: :> What type of processors do you feel are best suited to the wearable :> environment? :> I'm thinking motoroloa microcontrollers like the 6811/6812. Those chips are hopelessly underpowered for any real work. : For now... the 486 chips are the best... interms of a power : consumption/performance trade-off. The chip that would be splendid for : wearable computers is the the StrongARM chip. Very fast, very low power : requirements. Unfortunately I havnt heard of any StrongARM PC-104 boards : being developed right now, but I suppose that will change in the : (hopefully) near future. If you restrict yourself to PC-104, this is true. However, StrongARM is the best power/price/performance option. If you're willing to do some customizations beyond stacking PC-104 cards, then go StrongARM. BTW, Intel is actively developing StrongARM. They've got an entire design team down in Arizona working on it. Unfortunately, I think they are going to bumble with StrongARM because they are uncomfortable with it's price and performance competing with the desktop. "Intel, change happens. Either make the change, or lose fighting it." IMHO. Mark
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