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Sure. Modern SoCs are so integrated that its really just wiring up IO and maybe some flash RAM. A good place to start are the Atmel AT91SAM line of chips.
by adestefan 14y ago
Sure. Modern SoCs are so integrated that its really just wiring up IO and maybe some flash RAM. A good place to start are the Atmel AT91SAM line of chips.
- sown 14y agoNeat. I looked at the Raspberry Pi schematic and it seems comprehensible, aside from my ignorance about the bcm2835. now i just need to pick a SoC. Are there any hobby/startup friendly HW vendors out there? The calxeda chip looks like what I would want. How to convince them to give me a sample, lol.
- mkhattab 14y agoIt's a lot more difficult than that. Perhaps designing a board around a low-speed microcontroller is easier for beginners but definitely not a modern SoC. One of the reasons is because most of these SoCs come in highly dense BGA (ball-grid array) packages and usually this means you'll need more layers to route traces on your board, which introduces more complexity. Another reason, perhaps the most important, is that there are a lot more pitfalls in designing high speed PCBs. Unfortunately, I do not know much more about this.