14 DAY TRIAL // After conquering the personal computers of thousands of users, Linux went further and now it claims its rights in the embedded computer modules field. Eliabs company, based in Bangalore, India has recently unveiled its new offer: a chip-like embedded computer module called LinSeed that comes with Linux 2.6.19 pre-installed.
LinSeed measures only 1.2 x 1.6-inches (30x40 mm) and it is based on Atmel AT91RM9200 processor clockable up to 180MHz. The module comes with 16MB of RAM and 32 MB flash memory and the storage capacity can be expanded through USB-based flash modules and other devices.
Highlights:
- Monochrome graphic LCD interface - Character LCDs interface - Matrix keypad interface - USB interface - Serial interface - Ethernet Mac - SSC or I2S audio codec support - WiFi over USB - Digital I/O, I2C, SPI - GPRS over cellular - Bluetooth over USB/serial
There are also other important features provided by this midget module, such as a 10BaseT Ethernet, an USB slave interface, 3 serial ports, including a "full serial" one, 8 respectively 4 opto-isolated digital inputs / outputs and many application-specific carrier boards are available too, softPLC (programmable logic controller) board, WLAN-enabled MMI (man-machine interface) board. Regarding the Linux 2.6.19 kernel, this is said to be loaded automatically on power up by Uboot. The module is shipped with GNU tools and example applications and benefits of many other various features such as a JFFS2 filesystem and drivers for serial, USB mass storafe, USB slave, Netgear USB WiFi dongle, SPI, I2C, GPIO, Matrix keypad and real-time clock.