<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div>On 12 May 2013, at 23:42, Charlie Peck wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 12, 2013, at 3:11 PM, "Lux, Jim (337C)" <<a href="mailto:james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov">james.p.lux@jpl.nasa.gov</a>> wrote:<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><br></font>I sent a couple of students off with rPi boards recently to see if we could do just that. Unfortunately their report wasn't good, they had reliability problems and having only the HDMI video made working with them difficult. We're thinking about looking at PC104 formfactor boards again to see if we can find something in that range that would work. Our goal is to produce something that's truly carry-on (we have a MicroFe design now that's 2 Mini-ITX boards in a Pelican briefcase that BCCD developers use but we'd like more cores).<br><br><blockquote type="cite">And LittleFE is truly commodity.. The architecture doesn't care which<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Mini-ITX mobo you get.. If you want to stack up Intel D2550s instead of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the Via boards, it's no real matter. <br></blockquote><br>The latest model of LittleFe does use Atom D2550's, and we're looking at AMD based APU units for the future. One of our design goals is to provide a platform that people could easily build any Mini-ITX based system on, we sell the frame kit separately for just this reason.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>The "Minnow Board" <a href="http://www.minnowboard.org/">http://www.minnowboard.org/</a> might be of interest, though it doesn't quite seem to be out yet, and there's no price there yet.</div><div><br></div><div>(Disclaimer, since this is a new thread: I work for Intel, though not on anything to do with this).</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">--</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">-- Jim</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">--</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">James Cownie <<a href="mailto:jcownie@cantab.net">jcownie@cantab.net</a>></font></div><br></div></body></html>