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[denli]

Illuwatar wrote:
if someone takes care of the core software, I would happily create a new Mini-ITX out of this [a XC3S500E]... :-D

This sounds very interesting indeed.

A cheaper and bigger FPGA in combination with the ARM would allow for a lot of improvements.
Especially in combination with big, cheap and fast SDRAM.
The ARM USB-port is another nice feature that begs to be experimented upon later on (i.e. thinking USB to Ethernet dongles).

Would this constitute a Minimig v2.0?

[denli]

@Dwyloc
A Minimig v2 doesn't need to be Mini-ITX. That's just one of Illuwatar's current projects. As is his Mini Minimig.

@omnicron10
C-One isn't open source and, I suspect, neither will Clone-A be.
And the C-One is also bigger than the Minimig.

PS. The pictures in this thread is somewhat bloated.
Could you please scale them down? DS.

[denli]

@Schoenfeld
Cool  :-)
I wasn't aware of that. It's not mentioned anywhere on the About page.

Where can I find the license agreement?
It didn't show up when I searched for it at the Twiki-site (http://www.c-one.net/tiki-index.php) either.

It's good to know that it's open source but if anyone is about to build a C-One for them self, they better know what they can and can't do.

[denli]

yakumo9275 wrote:
to use usb, you need a usb stack in software, usb has a TONNE of overhead, its a piss poor bus as far as cpu consumption goes.

If you put the stack in the Amiga, yes.
I have no idea how the Minimig ARM Controller works but I would suspect that it already have some kind of USB-stack of it's own (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Then you would only need to present the Minimig ARM Controller USB as another kind of device that is less taxing for the Amiga/Minimig and let the Minimig ARM Controller do the hard work as I think yaqube has stated below.

yaqube wrote:

Dwyloc wrote:

Can the USB port on the add on board be used anything else as well as updating the firmware for the add on board?

Currently the USB port is not supported by the Minimig firmware. It could be used to turn the Minimig into an SD-Card reader or to communicate with host PC.

The Amiga/Minimig doesn't need to know it's using devices through a USB.