Jobe,
We have a product in design that won't be officially released for a couple
of months.
Its a computer that's about 2.5" x 3.5" x 1" thick in an all-metal
enclosure.
Its running Linux on a 32-bit ARM CPU.
It has:
- VGA/SVGA out for a display
- power-jack for DC in (~8 to 35 volts ... it has a 95% efficient switching
power supply built in)
- 2 x USB hosts
- audio headset jack (2.5mm)
- MMC/SD memory card slot for mem expansion
- Compact FLASH slot for WiFi, GSM, etc. communications, or CF HD
- 32 megaByte DiskOnChip
Its based on our Medallion CPU modules, which have supported USB & VGA for
2 years now with no problems!
Its designed so that if its clipped onto a belt, the card slots are UP, and
all the connectors are at the bottom for better cable management.
It will be marketed as a personal wireless terminal (you could also velcro
it to a desktop monitor, plug in an 802.11 card, add USB KBD & mouse, and
Presto --- instant wireless thin-client terminal ... good for call centers)
But its supposed to be a secret.
However, we are looking for beta testers interested in units priced near
cost.
So, if anyone is interested, you can let me know.....
BTW: The CPU on version I is only 60 MHz, so don't even consider augmented
reality on this one. Its a great terminal or data collection device.
For AR you'd want at least 400 MHz, integrated camera interface, HW camera
to display support with ZOOM or Picture-in-picture, etc. ... sounds vaguely
like the specs for a future model, but I wouldn't want to give away any
company secrets! hehe
Brian
PS: If you are a SW developer, we have 10 GUIs available on our platform.
That's the topic of an upcoming press release.
Included is FrameBuffer, Micro-Windows, QtEmbedded, X-Windows, GTK 1.2, GTK
2.0, FLTK, .....
And you can even run the FLTK GUI Builder Tool "FLUID" natively on our CPU
modules!
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Brian Empey, P. Eng.
President
Technical Solutions Inc.
Unit #1 7157 Honeyman St
Delta BC Canada, V4G 1E2
www.techsol.ca
eMail: 
Tel: 604 946 TECH (8324)
Fax: 604 946 6445
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Jobe Bittman wrote:
>
> Since the topic sort of changed, I changed the
> subject. I have been beating myself up trying to get
> VGA and USB at the same time from a strongarm pda
> decvice running linux. I have been working on a Ipaq
> 3870 with a dual pcmcia sleeve since January this year
> to this end. I currently have the Ratoc USB Host CF
> card in a pcmcia adapter and the two TinyX supported
> pcmcia VGA cards. The HP VGA-out card and the
> Colorgraphics Voyager VGA. I have gotten all of this
> working on familiar - but not at the same time. First
> off, I got the Ratoc card running well and have the
> usb-ps2 adapter connected to my twiddler 2 and it
> works great. The HP VGA-out card works great. The
> graphics look great and it runs fast. The
> Colorgraphics Voyager VGA card looks like crap. There
> is a strange red feedback effect when there is white
> on the screen and there are disabled pixels on the
> screen. When you move the mouse, the turned-off pixels
> change randomly. So avoid the Colorgraphics VGA card
> if you go the pcmcia route. The problem is I cannot
> use both USB and VGA at the same time. I think its a
> problem with the kernel because I have to recompile
> the kernel to add in 'preliminary USB filesystem'
> support. As soon as I install the new kernel, the
> video cards stop working and just show static or
> stange colors. If anyone has suggestions, I have CVS
> write accesss to the 2.4 kernel for familiar.
>
> On the toshiba vga/usb adapter, I have exchanged
> several emaiuls with Spyro who is the main guy working
> on the Toshiba e740/750/800 port. External VGA doesn't
> work. He claims it will work one day. He has the USB
> working partially I believe. I would sell all the ipaq
> gear immediately if it did work.
>
> Thats my experience so far with VGA and USB on a
> strongarm PDA.
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