Jumentum Introduces a Single-Chip Linux System

[wraggster]

The Jumentum open source project (http://jumentum.sourceforge.net/) has announced a single-chip programming system based on the NXP LPC1768 (the same as in the mbed (http://mbed.org/)) that can generate PAL/NTSC video (http://jumentum.sourceforge.net/lpc1768-video.html) and use a PS/2 keyboard, so it may operate as a standalone BASIC programmable computer, similar to many of old BASIC computers (e.g. Apple ][ or C64) of yore. Projects such as the Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) provide a multichip Linux solution, and the Humane PC (http://humaneinfo.com/pc.html) uses three AVR microcontrollers, however, the Jumentum system can provide a true one-chip solution. Video is generated by software, and only a few external resistors are required to interface to a composite video input. With the Jumentum system, you can take your tiny one-chip computer on-the-go, or use it as part of your own electronics projects (using for example, the mbed) to give it a convenient interface (along with Jumentum's Ethernet web and USB interfaces)."

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/10/23/0353245/jumentum-introduces-a-single-chip-linux-system