Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:55:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Embedded monitoring Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309231849260.16451-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030923.150657.131323048.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10309231430260.28875-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> > Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> writes: > : Anyone have any experience with PC/104 or other really small > : footprint platorms and FreeBSD? > > Yes. Works great. We've used FreeBSD on about two dozen different > single board computers. > > : We need to build a small box for equipment monitoring (temperature, > : pressure diff., vibration, indication). Just a few discrete > : inputs/outputs, and analog inputs would be good enough. The > : hard part may be sampling an A/D signal at up to 30KHz, so > : having the I/O card do the sampling and buffer it would > : probably be necessary. > > I'd recommend one of the Soekris boxes. > > : Any ideas on hardware (SBC, I/O board)? > > http://www.soekris.com is great. Yes, it looks nice. The form factor is just a bit larger than PC/104, especially with a PCCard plugged into its side. We'd also need some sort of general purpose I/O card which are fairly easy to find in PC/104 stacking modules. -- Dan Eischen
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