[offtopic]Some cheap and tiny ARM devices.

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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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sean_vn wrote:The 100 Mbytes per second for DRAM read is really fishy.
It's a move.
That's 25 million 32 bit integers per second. I think a 68000 CPU from 25 years ago could nearly equal that. Well, I can't say. Maybe they wired it up to an 8 bit DRAM chip, an 8-bit channel.
Even if that was 32-bit, the memory bus was at best 40MHz then (say an 68040 in a Quadra 840AV, which is big iron compared to an original 68000). So even if you could fetch a word every cycle, that would be 160MB/s read, 80MB/s R/W. And I doubt it could every cycle :-)
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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An 8 bit data channel is what you connect a Z80 to. Actually if you could put one 32 bit register into a Z80 and brought out 32 address pins, I think that would be more interesting for me. If you had been able to put a Z80 with 4 Gbytes of RAM in 1979 I'm sure there the world would be a very different place, with a very different style of programming and computer science would have taken very different research directions.
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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I don't see that much difference between the high end ddr2 and ddr4. Well it's not decades of magnitude difference.
I also discovered this recently (by testing). Low latency (+5 year old) DDR2 can be faster then current cheap DDR3 or DDR4.
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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badidea wrote:
I don't see that much difference between the high end ddr2 and ddr4. Well it's not decades of magnitude difference.
I also discovered this recently (by testing). Low latency (+5 year old) DDR2 can be faster then current cheap DDR3 or DDR4.
Did you test latency or burst?
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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Drago wrote:... I orderd 3 pi zero at reichelt. Looking forward to get them in December ...
Do you got the parts from Reichelt ?

Pollin does not ship it 2015 may be early 2016

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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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badidea wrote:
I don't see that much difference between the high end ddr2 and ddr4. Well it's not decades of magnitude difference.
I also discovered this recently (by testing). Low latency (+5 year old) DDR2 can be faster then current cheap DDR3 or DDR4.
I did some tests and for us it was the other way around, except for some extreme (manufactured) cases. We mostly benchmarked memmoves.
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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D.J.Peters wrote:
Drago wrote:... I orderd 3 pi zero at reichelt. Looking forward to get them in December ...
Do you got the parts from Reichelt ?

Pollin does not ship it 2015 may be early 2016

Joshy
No :(

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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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PINE A64 first 64-Bit Single Board Super Computer
512 MB = $15, 1 GB = $19, 2 GB = $29
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youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CKO9kWLxS4
kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pi ... per-comput
homepage: http://pine64.com

happy new year
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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Just a reminder that the $15 price tag on the PINE64 has no WiFi board included. That's an extra-cost feature, probably more than the board itself!

Pretty amazing how cheap and capable these little computers are becoming. Like most of the computers in this class, the PINE64 does have a large number of GPIO pins (3.3v). Also this board has a built-in LiPo charging circuit, something that is sorely missing on the Raspberry Pi.

It's also interesting to see that these little boards are actually useful and used for creative things. With the older generation of devices, they all ended up in my desk drawer, I'm afraid. Devices like the SheevaPlug, GuruPlug, Raspberry Pi 1, etc, that turned out to be much less useful in practice than in theory. I suspect 90% of the original Pis never made it out of drawers. But I've seen a few cool things done with it.
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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RasPi zero wrote: pi@PiZ01:~ $ fbc --version
FreeBASIC Compiler - Version 1.05.0 (12-19-2015), built for linux-arm (32bit)
Copyright (C) 2004-2015 The FreeBASIC development team.
pi@PiZ01:~ $
:-)

Next I have to get those wlan modules....and then the wiring :)

Greetings
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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the PINE64 is kickstarter project, there's no telling how long it would take for you to receive a unit, I made that mistake once with Parallella and will never do it again, it took over a year last time.
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Re: 5$ Raspberry PI Zero

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Drago wrote:Next I have to get those wlan modules....and then the wiring :)
A free ESP8266 book with 317 pages.
download: Kolbans-Book-on-the-ESP8266-October-2015.pdf

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Re: [offtopic] some cheap ARM devices

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C.H.I.P - The $9 Computer
OS: Debian Linux
Memory: 512 MB
Storage: 4GB (NAND high speed)
CPU: Cortex A8 1 GHZ (Allwinner) (ARMv7 supported by FreeBASIC)
GPIO pins, build in USB, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, Battery Charger ...

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youtube: Unboxing and First Boot and Getting Started

homepage: http://nextthing.co/pages/chip

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Re: [offtopic]Some cheap and tiny ARM devices.

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hackaday wrote:...you could probably fit 120 Raspberry Pi Zero’s into a shoebox !
what a fun :-)

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