TS-7200

Mine's on order... expect it some time this week.

As you have one, what are your thoughts...

--PJE

I'm still experimenting. I've not been able to recreate the TS-LINUX build that is on the flash. I have to do that in order to use this device. I've also not been successful in getting ppp working. It seems to make the kernel barf.

Other than that I think it does has some potential. But I'm also testing alternative products as well

Chris Fowler wrote

Which alternatives have you looked at?

I was looking at some of the XScale products - specifically the ARMcore product.

Unfortunately for initally testing their price ($1600) as well as the low volume pricing is a little higher than I'd like. In volume their prices look very good.

--PJE

Not yet... I asked them to ship the unit with the new metal enclosure/PSU as it's going into an industrial environment (inside another enclosure), and they were awaiting the shipment from their supplier...

...the wait is killing me! I hope to have it by this weekend.

I'm also looking at developing a custom PC/104 card for it to act as a process monitoring system (with a slave micro/DSP), and also adding the 320x240 QVGA color touchscreen (SLCD by Reach Technologies) which is a RS232 driven that I picked up previously.

In the near future there will be a TS-7x00 with LCD drive capabilities which will remove the need for the serial display, but will also add quite a bit of load to the main CPU, so I may or may not move on to this unit.

Regards,

PJE

At the time of writing the last message my TS-7200 Dev kit was sitting on a table in my development area...

Initial thoughts:

Hardware - Very nice. Mine's pretty much fully loaded less the A/D. The enclosure is very nicely done, although I'm currently powering it directly with 5V rather than goinf through the 24V DC:DC convertor.

Software - As a complete newby to Linux I was a little lost, but I'm finding my way a little more now. I'm now looking at how ot create a Hello World program via the gcc on the CF.

Regards,

PJE

Announcement...

I've started a TS-7200 group at:

PJE

Out of curiousity, how much is this thing? I have seen an addvertisements ( I think in CicuitCellar Magazine) and was curious. T. Marchini

The Reach Tech SLCD was around $300 without a case, and is now available in an industrial enclosure for $450.

PJE