[Wear-Hard] Linux SBC in a USB stick

[Bear Naff]

While not related to wearable computing directly, I'm seeing shades of
Manfred McX's wearable cluster in this.  Hook up a handful of these things
to a Linksys NSLU-2 and poof! instant-ish cluster computer.

Unfortunately, I cannot think of any particular applications where
parallelism at 190Mhz beats a single machine running at 1Ghz or more.


On 6/23/07, Steve Barr <barr8888 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6730529835.html
>
> A start-up located in the French Alps near Grenoble is readying a tiny
> ARM-based Linux single-board computer (SBC) in a USB key form-factor. Calao,
> based in Sant Martin le Vinoux, is also readying a tiny Linux SBC designed
> to plug into QIL (quad in-line) IC sockets.
>
> Calao's USB-9260 USB key-sized SBC measures 3.3 x 1.4 inches (85 x 36 mm).
> It is based on an Atmel AT91SAM9260 processor, an SoC (system-on-chip)
> powered by an ARM926EJ-S core clocked at 190MHz. The SoC targets "advanced
> applications such as GPS application processors," according to Atmel.
>
> The tiny USB key SBC has 64MB of SDRAM and 256MB of NAND flash. I/O
> includes a USB 2.0 device port (obviously), a 10/100 Ethernet port, and a
> pair of USB 2.0 host ports. The device also has a 50-pin expansion
> interface, although the company has not published the pinout, nor announced
> any specific daughterboards.
>
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