Dale Ghent <daleg@thermite.digex.net> writes: > 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. > > 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. Somebody on the wearables list said there was such a thing, but was unable to provide a URL. The other ting to check out is the PLEB project. I haven't got a url either, but try wearable.ml.org -- Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 3pm - 1am http://www.binary.net.au/
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