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« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2011, 09:29:14 am »
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.. too many options may kill a man..
What about a few Mbytes of sram (or psram) connected via FSMC ? - this allows us to run much bigger stuff on it and it decreases the number of the free lines by ~45  smiley.
There are several offerings for a PSRAM (SDRAM with internal refresh) up to 128Mbit today, however mostly in BGA54 or BGA48. There are a few Cypress' srams (ie 1Mx16, 2Mx16) in TSOP48 available too.
It would be a nice designer's challenge to use the BGA packages here, indeed smiley.
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PS: For example eLua runs fine on this board and uses full 192kB of internal ram already. eLua can easily incorporate C functions, so maybe the arduino libs as well. It is OO and supports multithreading (coroutines) by default as well. Compiler/interpreter is built in as well as a SDcard support. It can allocate the Lua working space to an external ram easily (it can work with segmented ram space).
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« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2012, 08:42:10 am »
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I noticed someone pointed an RTC to use in a shield with this board.
It already has a 32kHz crystal and internal hardware for RTC support. I mean real hardware specific for the RTC function.

For those that like the Arduino-style programming, there is a port (ok, half one third-built) of the libmaple in http://forums.leaflabs.com/topic.php?id=1268&page=3. I added a few defines and support for the onboard random number generator.

I'm writing part of the driver for the RTC, but first I need to get some sort of communication since the USB implementation for the libmaple is different than the one in this Discovery board. smiley-sad

What I think would be really great expansion board for this chip is:

- SD card connected in the SDIO port (there are specific bits to access the SD/MMC cards).
- Ethernet interface.
- Separate power supply.
- LCD interface.
- Xbee interface? Or a Xbee explorer/FTDI chip header to communicate with the PC (at least while there isn't an implementation for the USB comms).
- Then of course, the break out from the double row header.


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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2013, 08:18:36 pm »
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Did this idea for a shield die out?

i'm holding out hope.
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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2013, 09:40:40 pm »
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Its sort of on hold.  I got caught up in other stuff.  If there's interest, we can revive it, I can work on it some more after I get my taxes done.  W2 is in, am waiting on some 1099s.  I am not doing anything with my board.
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« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2013, 02:15:30 am »
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No worries. I'd be interested in reviving it in a couple of months. I ordered a couple of the discoveries today as I have so image intensive processing, having an external sram on the shield would be ideal.
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« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2013, 03:29:59 am »
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having an external sram on the shield
The full address/data bus for an external memory is available on 144+ pins versions only..
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« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2013, 11:30:31 am »
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Bummer  smiley-sad
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