[En-Nut-Discussion] Nut ARM Status

[Ralph Mason]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Ralph Mason wrote:
>   
>> It's time to start a new design and we have chosen the AT91SAM7S256 to
>> replace our current AVR Solution.
>>
>> It's a pretty amazing chip for $6.50, and seems to have everything
>> necessary to run NutOS the we we do (e.g without any Ethernet support).
>>     
>
> That looks quite interesting chip. Anyone know European online sales
> source for ARM chips in small quantities? I am interested in that and
> other models. Somehow AVR's are quite easy to get, but when micro
> controllers gets more "interesting" they are quite hard to find in
> online shops.
>
>   
Digikey will ship worldwide, and have stock.  I got samples from ATMEL 
via a local rep in about a week.

Seems like family would be a natural choice for NutOs. The AT91SAM7X256 
by example ( 
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?part_id=3755_  ) has 
a built-in 10/100 MAC, 3 uarts, SPI, I2C, USB device, CAN.  With no 
external bus you have a low cost power full net controller - just 
connect a clock, power.

Ralph