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I was never able to find an Edison, but did find a curie however it seems they have given up on it since their big marketing campaign. you can buy the dev board

I was never able to find an Edison, but did find a curie however it seems they have given up on it since their big marketing campaign. you can buy the dev boards but I found it impossible to find a price or supply for the soc itself. also the quark processor that powers it apparently has a segfault with the only workaround being disabling lock, which presents a lot of issues for certain scenarios, specifically multi-threading.(https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-22478 https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-22478) Not sure if that is related to their abandoning of the product line, if that is indeed the case. No idea what's going on. also worth noting, the actual SOC itself is significantly larger than all of the marketing pictures show it. Not sure if they used an alternate, cheaper form factor for the dev kit or what.

simcop2387 10y ago
Damn I hadn't heard about that problem with the Quark. What I had heard was that it was notoriously difficult to get a hold of low level docs so that you could do anything serious with it (or was that the Curie or Edison?), which put me off trying their line up because all of the ARM Cortex stuff is pretty much open compared to them (CMSIS makes a lot of peripherals trivial to deal with compared to some of the mess that used to exist for ARM).
- makomk 10y ago
  I don't think it was widely reported, but it was kind of a dealbreaker because it meant that existing x86 code simply wouldn't run and therefore it was impossible to use standard Linux distros or toolchains on the Quark. Between that, the difficulty of getting chips, the rather poor performance and power usage, and the complexity of integrating it, I think it was basically dead on arrival. The main thing Intel seemed to get out of it was a bunch of very favourable articles about how they'd be part of the Internet of Things revolution. The whole thing seemed ill-conceived; it was a 486 going up against modern RISC designs with predictable results.
- 69mlgsniperdad 10y ago
  Correct I could not find docs for the Curie to provide any insight into how everything worked, technically. I found some docs which contained a block diagram and saw the bluetooth module is a Nordic NRF51822. That package is a full Bluetooth stack as well as an arm cortex processor. I could not however determine how it was connected to the rest of the system, nor figure out if there was a way to get direct access to that arm cortex.
- seanp2k2 10y ago
  The Defcon badge had a Quark on it. It was pretty interesting.
dethswatch 10y ago
? Amazon and the rest have them every day. WHen did you try last?

simcop2387 10y ago

Damn I hadn't heard about that problem with the Quark. What I had heard was that it was notoriously difficult to get a hold of low level docs so that you could do anything serious with it (or was that the Curie or Edison?), which put me off trying their line up because all of the ARM Cortex stuff is pretty much open compared to them (CMSIS makes a lot of peripherals trivial to deal with compared to some of the mess that used to exist for ARM).

makomk 10y ago
I don't think it was widely reported, but it was kind of a dealbreaker because it meant that existing x86 code simply wouldn't run and therefore it was impossible to use standard Linux distros or toolchains on the Quark. Between that, the difficulty of getting chips, the rather poor performance and power usage, and the complexity of integrating it, I think it was basically dead on arrival. The main thing Intel seemed to get out of it was a bunch of very favourable articles about how they'd be part of the Internet of Things revolution. The whole thing seemed ill-conceived; it was a 486 going up against modern RISC designs with predictable results.
69mlgsniperdad 10y ago
Correct I could not find docs for the Curie to provide any insight into how everything worked, technically. I found some docs which contained a block diagram and saw the bluetooth module is a Nordic NRF51822. That package is a full Bluetooth stack as well as an arm cortex processor. I could not however determine how it was connected to the rest of the system, nor figure out if there was a way to get direct access to that arm cortex.
seanp2k2 10y ago
The Defcon badge had a Quark on it. It was pretty interesting.

dethswatch 10y ago

? Amazon and the rest have them every day. WHen did you try last?