Wanted - PC borad or example schematics

On 02/23/2017 07:20 AM, colin wrote:

 

Hi

 

Can anyone helP?

 

I'm looking for a CPU board with some rom(or flash or whatever) some ram and

USB I/O  but little or nothing else. (IE No video chips etc)

IE Minimal bare metal.

 

CPU to be as powerful as possible - If theres an X86-64 board that would be ideal.

I could use 32 or 64 bit CPU. Power is my key factor. (I dont want a

multiprocessor board or "network")

 

I'm happy to buy an existing board to meet my needs or could build one if

a suitable circuit example exists.

 

The only eagle design I can find is an atmel which is clearly no good to me.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

colin

 

 

Take a look at Technologic Systems.  They have multiple configurations

of ARM and Intel single board computers.  They are also willing to

design a board of your choice.

In article <o8mqeg$572$1@baboon.cadsoft.de>, chuck.huber@dukepro.com

says...

Thanks for both responses.

I've taken a look at the suggestions but neither seems suitable.

Either processors with everything including the kitchen sink crippling the silicon

or just not enough oomph - (ARMS are too underpowered for my use I think -

and seem extraordinarily complex to set up to try and be all things to all people)

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood the very complex world

of CPU's today nobody is buildng a powerful optimised processor.

If I needed graphics output I could look at GPU's but again the current use

seems to preclude just "processing"  The extra stuff just complicates matters.

I guess I'm going t have to make massive compromises to get anything

to work - but its a bit suprising.

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood.

but thanks again.

colin

 

On 02/23/2017 07:20 AM, colin wrote:

 

Hi

 

Can anyone helP?

 

I'm looking for a CPU board with some rom(or flash or whatever) some ram and

USB I/O  but little or nothing else. (IE No video chips etc)

IE Minimal bare metal.

 

CPU to be as powerful as possible - If theres an X86-64 board that would be ideal.

I could use 32 or 64 bit CPU. Power is my key factor. (I dont want a

multiprocessor board or "network")

 

I'm happy to buy an existing board to meet my needs or could build one if

a suitable circuit example exists.

 

The only eagle design I can find is an atmel which is clearly no good to me.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

colin

 

 

 

Take a look at Technologic Systems.  They have multiple configurations

of ARM and Intel single board computers.  They are also willing to

design a board of your choice.

--

john

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"Bleeding Edge Forum"

http://johntech.co.uk/forum/

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In article <o8mqeg$572$1@baboon.cadsoft.de>, chuck.huber@dukepro.com

says...

Thanks for both responses.

I've taken a look at the suggestions but neither seems suitable.

Either processors with everything including the kitchen sink crippling the silicon

or just not enough oomph - (ARMS are too underpowered for my use I think -

and seem extraordinarily complex to set up to try and be all things to all people)

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood the very complex world

of CPU's today nobody is buildng a powerful optimised processor.

If I needed graphics output I could look at GPU's but again the current use

seems to preclude just "processing"  The extra stuff just complicates matters.

I guess I'm going t have to make massive compromises to get anything

to work - but its a bit suprising.

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood.

but thanks again.

colin

 

On 02/23/2017 07:20 AM, colin wrote:

 

Hi

 

Can anyone helP?

 

I'm looking for a CPU board with some rom(or flash or whatever) some ram and

USB I/O  but little or nothing else. (IE No video chips etc)

IE Minimal bare metal.

 

CPU to be as powerful as possible - If theres an X86-64 board that would be ideal.

I could use 32 or 64 bit CPU. Power is my key factor. (I dont want a

multiprocessor board or "network")

 

I'm happy to buy an existing board to meet my needs or could build one if

a suitable circuit example exists.

 

The only eagle design I can find is an atmel which is clearly no good to me.

 

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

colin

 

 

 

Take a look at Technologic Systems.  They have multiple configurations

of ARM and Intel single board computers.  They are also willing to

design a board of your choice.

--

john

=========================

http://johntech.co.uk

"Bleeding Edge Forum"

http://johntech.co.uk/forum/

=========================

On 25/02/17 11:36, colin wrote:

(ARMS are too underpowered for my use I think -

and seem extraordinarily complex to set up to try and be all things to all people)

 

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood the very complex world

of CPU's today nobody is buildng a powerful optimised processor.

I think you're being prejudiced and artificially limiting your options

until you reach the conclusion your grumpiness desires.

If you really need multi-gigahertz 64-bit multi-core then buy a PC. You

can get CoreI7 miniITX boards. The presence of a (fairly minimal) GPU

on-chip is NOT costing you anything in performance, any more than it

disadvantages the gaming community who would sooner cut their own

private parts out than countenance the use of an on-chip GPU instead of

a massively over-priced graphics card.

If your actual requirements are less intense - perhaps one GHz quad core

32-bit - then there are some very reasonably priced (and not at ALL hard

to set up) ARM devices available. And for a bonus, many of them don't

have GPUs. Of course, you'll have to actually do some work to design

those chips onto a board.

On 25/02/17 11:36, colin wrote:

(ARMS are too underpowered for my use I think -

and seem extraordinarily complex to set up to try and be all things to all people)

 

Unless I've missed something or missunderstood the very complex world

of CPU's today nobody is buildng a powerful optimised processor.

I think you're being prejudiced and artificially limiting your options

until you reach the conclusion your grumpiness desires.

If you really need multi-gigahertz 64-bit multi-core then buy a PC. You

can get CoreI7 miniITX boards. The presence of a (fairly minimal) GPU

on-chip is NOT costing you anything in performance, any more than it

disadvantages the gaming community who would sooner cut their own

private parts out than countenance the use of an on-chip GPU instead of

a massively over-priced graphics card.

If your actual requirements are less intense - perhaps one GHz quad core

32-bit - then there are some very reasonably priced (and not at ALL hard

to set up) ARM devices available. And for a bonus, many of them don't

have GPUs. Of course, you'll have to actually do some work to design

those chips onto a board.

On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 11:36:47 -0000, colin <colin@example.com> wrote:

I've taken a look at the suggestions but neither seems suitable.

Either processors with everything including the kitchen sink crippling the silicon

or just not enough oomph - (ARMS are too underpowered for my use I think -

and seem extraordinarily complex to set up to try and be all things to all people)

The major problem is that you haven't told us what you want to do with

this processor.  "number crunching" covers a practically infinite

spectrum.

Doesn't Intel still make the Itanium high end processor?

Last time it mattered to me there were companies that made

"supercomputer on a card" to go in a PC expansion slot.  I'd look to

see if those still exist.

John

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