Help us select RoadTest kits

I'd like to try, the 3. ST's STM3210E-SK/HT as I'd like to start using ARM Cortex devices (My current Favourite is Atmels AVR) as some of my work requires a bit more oomph.(Though I do enjoy squeezing the AVR's and it has definately improved my programming skills!)

I'd Ilso like to try the, Maxim's MAX9830.

Dan.

in order of what I'd most love to play with:

option 3. ST's STM3210E-SK/HT - really keen to get my hands on an arm based dev kit.

option 8. Microchip’s DM183026 - as would be capacitive touch sensors!

option 4. Maxim's MAX9830A - class D  amp that works with no filtering sounds really interesting to  play with.

thanks,

julian

An interesting selection there! Predictably, I would go with the herd. The smaller products (Class D amp for example) I can hack together quickly and cheaply anyway, the more complex / delicate systems are way too much hassle to mock up a 1-off just to see if it will work, so I nominate:

3.  ST's STM3210E-SK/HT helps start development for the company's ARM   core-based microcontrollers.

9. Innovate Software  Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based  on the TI OMAP L138 processor.

Last year I had a customer come to me with a product design that fitted the Beagleboard Hawkboard pretty closely. It would be interesting to see if I could resurrect it. Who knows! Difficult times out here for pitching new products without having at least a prototype to show.

I would also like to add my weight to the suggestion of a relatively simple FPGA board, maybe one of those with a DIP40 header. Not especially for my use, but because I think it will help many of the technicians and engineers out there get into a product area that is likely to be even bigger business in the not too distant future. They are very difficult to get into at a simple level, yet most engineers only need something fairly basic to use, rather than an all-singing all-dancing box which has so much to offer that it gets in the way of actually using the FPGA. Being greedy, a Xilinx eval board would be top of the list, but there are many 3rd party manufacturers who produce FPGA kits.

More personally, I would like to see Analog Devices boards, particularly DDS and ADC/DAC. The lower end DDSes are very easy to develop with, but the faster gear, and the faster/wider ADC/DACs are very demanding  and need professional dev boards.

Mike

Hi Alistair,

I am currently playing with an Mbed which is great fun but would realy like to try out the following.

9. Innovate Software Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based on the TI OMAP L138 processor.

Jus had a quick browse of thier site and have to say wow can see lots of posibilities with this.

8. Microchip’s DM183026 mTouch capacitive  evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense applications using PIC16F or  PIC24F MCUs.

From a work perspective I can see this being very useful (trainiee clinical technologist) intrigued by possible work applications I could apply it to.

Think site and people on it are great.

Found lots of useful info already.

Danny

Here are my votes:

3.  ST's STM3210E-SK/HT helps start development for the company's ARM   core-based microcontrollers.

I have played around with the STM32 Primer2 before and would like to see how different this is.

5. Matrix Multimedia's EB018 E-blocks CAN bus board  allows investigation  of the CAN bus protocol.

Always eager to learn about more protocols

7. Freescale's  RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX 3-axis acceleration sensing demo  board combines  demos available for accelerometer applications.

Accelerometers! Need I say more?

8. Microchip’s  DM183026 mTouch capacitive evaluation kit helps develop  touch sense  applications using PIC16F or PIC24F MCUs.

Should be fun to experiment with!

9. Innovate Software  Solutions Hawkboard is an open community board with a  feature set based  on the TI OMAP L138 processor.

Looks similar to the Beagleboard and full of potential!

Regards,
Michael

7. Freescale's RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX  3-axis acceleration sensing demo  board combines demos available for  accelerometer applications.

I'm doing a sensor network for racing cars, so, this would be very interesting for the development of the work.

1st choice: 9. Innovate Software Solutions Hawkboard

stefan

I think that STM3210E-SK/HT in this  moments for me the most interesting, since I am currently in the  process of searching ARM processors for our projects. Now we are using  ARM -  LPC1700/LPC1300 and non-ARM - AVR32, it would be interesting to try ST32

Думаю, что STM3210E-SK/HT в данный момен для меня наиболее интересен, так как в данный момент я в процессе поиска ARM процессоров для своих проектов. На сегоднящний день используем LPC1700/LPC1300 интересно было бы попробовать и ST32

Hi!

In my opinion the following kits would be interesting to test

No:1  Kit 8

No:2  Kit 5

No:3  Kit 4

//John

Hi:

I would like to vote for this options:

3. ST's STM3210E-SK/HT

7. Freescale's RD1986MMA2260DRD1986MMA2260D TRIAX

8. Microchip’s DM183026

Iñigo.