8th is expanding its embedded offerings

joi, 21 aprilie 2016, 10:24:17 UTC+3, Ron Aaron a scris:

Hi Ron,

"Mid range" ARM less capable than Pi are very vague... Do you have in mind Cortex-M chips? There are very capable ones M4 and M7, with quite a lot of internal RAM and usually supporting external RAM too.

Also "No GUI" is quite common, but there are again some Cortex-M chips with quite capable GUI engines (see STM32F4xx, STM32F7xx, LPC40xx, LPC43xx, LPC18xx). I admit that a GUI library is not trivial for such chips, but still...

I'm asking because mid-range can be Cortex-M families but also ARM9/Cortex-A5 families that can run Linux but are far less capable than Pi but more capable than Cortex-M ones.

Hi, Raimond -

Yes, yes it is :o

The answer to your question (and it's a good question) is that the specific hardware to be supported is "to be determined". We're open to suggestions at this stage.

Regarding GUI vs no-GUI, we will probably have several versions to accommodate different platforms.

Thanks for the questions!

So the first target has been set: Mikromedia+. It is possible we'll target PIC32 after that, but it really depends on what the demand is.

Does 8th provide cross-platform BLE support?

It does, though it's still being developed.

Just an update: we now have a partner who is designing and producing the upcoming "embedded-8th board". See more here: