Template:NEXT/processor

new processor
announced in 2008: Overo product line as per the press release posted here.

done in Q1/2007 with PXA270-based verdex motherboards - What about supporting a new processor like the PXA270? It would be nice to have a powerful frame grabber and a usb host on board. plus the additional processing power... Intel just scheduled the termination of the PXA26x series. It will only accept orders until Jan. 18th, 2006. One more reason to look into new cpus.

I'd only want to see PXA27x based boards if they actually perform better. I've heard PXA27x processors perform slower than PXA255s at the same clock speed. -- DiabloD3

Must have :

- an FPU

- a vectorial unit

Nice to have : - x86 compatible (geode, via, transmetta, intel...)

J2ME (FPGA?) coprocessor
Yeah, I would really like to see Gumstix turned into an open PDA/Smartphone platform. :) Managing to let it run J2ME code, with support for the nifty extensions, would be a step in the right way. The following are JSRs supported by newer mobile phones:


 * MIDP 2.0
 * CLDC 1.1
 * Wireless Messaging API (JSR-120) (SMS)
 * Wireless Messaging API 2.0 (JSR-205) (MMS)
 * Mobile Media API (JSR-135) (Audio/Video)
 * Mobile 3D Graphics API (JSR-184) (games!!!)
 * JTWI (JSR-185) (standardizes and enhances communication stuff for wireless mobile gadgets)
 * FileConnection and PIM API (JSR-75) (Without it java apps do not have general access to files and such)
 * Bluetooth API (JSR-82 No OBEX)
 * Scalable 2D graphics (JSR-226) (SVG)

Just to get started running java bytecode, a FPGA would come in handy. There are many other projects which would benefit from a general-purpose configurable FPGA coprocessor. This (the FPGA) would open a whole Pandora's box of gumstixing tinkerdom (in the good sense). Just look below how many ideas could start based on it.