original article published in March, 2007 EETimes recently ran an article titled “Plummeting prices make NAND appear almost free” (http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197002923). 1GBytes parts cost around $55… Read More »NAND Flash is almost “free” and what it means for Embedded Systems
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We are currently working a project that contains cm-x270 module (http://bec-systems.com/web/content/view/62/9/ ) which contains 4MB of NOR flash and 128MB of NAND flash. The Linux… Read More »Building a tiny “safe” boot image using OpenEmbedded
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One of the first things I do when designing a system based on a processor module is create a spreadsheet listing all the connector I/O. … Read More »Gumstix Overo Connector Spreadsheet