On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:04 AM, John Griessen <john@industromatic.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 12:20 AM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
>>
>> Why leave out the hub, doesn't it ease programming?
>
> Because we're thinking product, not development ease.
> A hub is just there to reduce cabling to one.
> For the neato demo by sales folks. Who cares if it needs 2 cables
> during devel if it drives the selling price up?
>
> I think the
>>
>> ethernet is currently through USB, which can't support gigabit... how
>> will you interface the gigE?
>
> I think the AM3558 has an ethernet interface that just needs a different PHY
> chip to be 1000/100/10 functional.
I don't think it has an ethernet interface, its generally built-in
on-chip for using without an OS.
>
> Do you use KiCAD? If not, would you? Then we could collaborate some.
I haven't layed out boards, I've also heard about something called gEDA.
> What do you know about sample availability? Know who to call for a AM3559
> sample?
There's a local TI rep who's supposedly excited about open-source
stuff, but according to beagleBone news I think availability is
limited, because the beagleBone is using a chip that is more than what
they require performance/feature wise, but is pin compatible with the
chips that will be out soon (this line of chips just got released by
TI on Oct 31 2011, so still fresh!)
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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