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Re: GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar)
- From: Andrew Greenberg <andrew at psas dot pdx dot edu>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 23:16:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] GSM/GPRS/GPS board supporting eCos (Falcom XF55 or similar)
- References: <5.2.1.1.2.20050908124914.02140290@mail.speakeasy.net><5.2.1.1.2.20050908124914.02140290@mail.speakeasy.net>
Assuming that the port is already done but they don't release the source,
only a binary to link. Can this be done?
Seems like it should be possible! But this is a question for Falcom, not
for the eCos discussion list. It really depends on what tools, sources, and
APIs they give you... but I guarantee that it'll be hard to work with eCos
on that board, so you better hope they give you a binary interface to run
your own firmware.
Are are my options in terms of other boards? Anyone?
Not many combo boards like that exist... and of those, I haven't seen any
that are programmable.
If it were me, then I'd purchase a commercial GPRS board and GPS board, and
tie them together (including the ability to literally power down both
boards) with a very low power microcontroller... or maybe an ARM running
eCos if you need TCP support.
If you want to help an open source project :) then you can use GPL-GPS
(http://gps.psas.pdx.edu/) as your GPS and microcontroller, and then all
you'll need is a serial to GPRS converter board which exist by the dozens
(just do a google search for "serial to gprs converter". Of course, that's
not exactly "lowest workload" option, since GPL-GPS is still under development.
- Andrew
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