Software Updates for April 2011

Most downloads have been halted until we add security. We have had attacks from Poland and the Ukraine using scripts to download big files thousands of times. Why? Why grafitiy? Why vandalism? We assume it is kids leaning basic hacking.

 

The Part of the Manual You Really Need

Mini2440 Essentials. The last section on driver source locations and devices should be useful. Use these pinouts in conjunction with the S3C2440 data sheet. The FAQ page has downloads for using JTAG and the boot loader.

Mini6410 Manual English  FriendlyARM has done a nice job on an English manual for the Mini2440 with lots of good info.

 

 

Lets get back to listing some interesting links. You will have to cut and paste in your browser.

The Pengutronix page. This is getting very good reviews from Mini2440 users.

http://www.oselas.org/oselas/bsp/pengutronix/mini2440_bsp_en.html

http://www.cnx-software.com/2011/08/27/free-linux-tutorials-by-the-linux-foundation/

DipTrace Schematic Capture and PCB Layout - looks normal compared to Eagle.
http://www.gadgetgangster.com/news/45-designer-news/285-layout-tips-a-tricks.html

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/

Bill has been bloging for quite a while and learned some very good Mini2440 lessons.

http://bill.station51.net/index.php?

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/NAND_bad_blocks

http://www.denx.de/en/News/WebHome

Driving Stepper Motors - general information.
http://www.probotix.com/stepper_motors/unipolar_bipolar/

Alternatives to GNU.
http://www.iar.com/en/Products/IAR-Embedded-Workbench/ARM/

Weird site. Some uC/OS-II and some nonsense.

http://www.ucos-ii.com/
 

A site listing web resources for free information on electronics and tech.

http://www.freebyte.com/electronics/

Check the free web books on DSP.

http://www.dspguru.com/

http://ultimatewebfree.kinssha.org/index.php/tutorielmini2440

Blog for building your own Linux
http://www.sergioprado.org/en/2011/11/30/gerando-e-usando-toolchains-em-linux-embarcado/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blog_do_sergio_prado+%28Blog+do+Sergio+Prado%29

Video tutorial for compiling a kernel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzrxEIAHdxo

A project to get SQLite running on Mini2440
http://programmers-projects.de/node/12

Making boot SD cards for Mini6410
http://www.sasabremec.com/wordpress/arm11-my-friendlyarm/ultimate-guide-to-boot-friendlyarm-from-sd-card/

Anybody use these folks?
http://www.screamingcircuits.com/Order

Buildroot for Mini2440
https://github.com/xandroalmeida/Mini2440-Buildroot

Pengutronix Debian
http://debian.pengutronix.de/

A Qt gotcha.
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/forums/viewthread/11808

RT-Thread has a Mini2440 branch
http://code.google.com/p/rt-thread/

Mini2440 Angstrom
http://www.electronics.diycinema.co.uk/embedded/mini2440/building-angstrom-with-fedora-15/

Thinking of Micrium and robust real-time? They have a GUI lib.
http://micrium.com/page/products/rtos/gui

Where do you get Ubuntu?
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

Don't do this without a license?
http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/How_to_build_a_static_Qt_version_for_Windows_with_gcc

CNC with Mini2440
http://code.google.com/p/miniemc2/wiki/PageName

Need a parallel port for Wiggler style JTAG?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166006

So, you wanna build something? Try these
http://stores.ebay.com/8020-Inc-Garage-Sale

And these
http://www.microrax.com/

A8 Cortex versus Atom
http://www.slideshare.net/napoleaninlondon/arm-cortex-a8-vs-intel-atomarchitectural-and-benchmark-comparisons

ARM A8 Reference
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/cortex-a/cortex-a8.php

Best RS-485 chip?
http://www.linear.com/product/LTM2881

Your faithful narrator is in this one, oh my brothers.
http://www.digibarn.com/friends/jef-raskin/slides/canon-cat/index.html

 

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