How is this different than the uCSimm that is a 30 pin SIMM, or the credit card linux that is pretty much the same that was mentioned on Slashdot on sunday? Bryan On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Bryan Andersen wrote: > Charles J Knight wrote: > > > > > On the topics of flexible circuitry, big belt buckles, modules > > > in collars, etc. These are all great and interesting ideas. > > > > Hey, noone ever said that we weren't a creative group. > > > > > But the goal was low cost and simplicity. I have to wonder > > > what the tradeoff of cost vs benefit on the flexible circuits > > > at this point. Seems to me we would be better off sticking to > > > traditional PCB methods for now. If people want to then take > > > > True. A set of specs and some schematics are our goal at > > this point. Next comes a prototype. If someone wants to build > > it into a collar or belt buckle, so be it... The case isn't the > > important part, though it is important to a total, univeral design, > > if it ever becomes commercialized. > > Simplicity is kinda the reason I mentioned a Palm Pilot like > device. I've looked at what it take to make a Motorola DragonBall > based system. It's simple. Most of the tricky stuff is integrated > into the DragonBall. It directly interfaces to both RAM and FLASH > memory without extra components. It will drive grey scale LCD > pannels up to 1/4VGA size. Onboard seial is 1 Async UART (RS-232 > compatible) and one IC2 compatible serial port. You could add > extra serial devices if you wished using some of the address decode > logic to address them. It would be no problem making it on one PCB > of less than 3"x4". One could also provide for expansion on a > second PCB quite easily. The only real difficulty is dealing with > surface mount components. > > -- > | Bryan Andersen || http://softail.visi.com | > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen | > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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