Low-Cost Single-Board Computer Features eCos System

Oct. 27, 2003

The Merlin small-footprint single-board computer (SBC) has a 25-MHz Intel 386EX CPU, three serial ports, a 10BaseT Ethernet interface, 2 Mbytes of DRAM, 1 Mbyte of flash, 512 kbytes of battery-backed SRAM, a real-time clock, and an onboard 8- to 18-V dc (or 10- to 16-V ac) power supply. The board includes an I/O expansion port for driving custom I/O, an onboard 48-bit unique ID device, and a battery. It runs eCos, an open-source, royalty-free, real-time operating system. Also, it includes a TCP/IP stack and applications. The Merlin eCos Development Kit costs $312.

Arcomwww.arcom.com

About the Author

William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

You can send press releases for new products for possible coverage on the website. I am also interested in receiving contributed articles for publishing on our website. Use our template and send to me along with a signed release form.

Check out my blog, AltEmbedded on Electronic Design, as well as his latest articles on this site that are listed below.

You can visit my social media via these links:

I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

I still get a hand on software and electronic hardware. Some of this can be found on our Kit Close-Up video series. You can also see me on many of our TechXchange Talk videos. I am interested in a range of projects from robotics to artificial intelligence.