[Today’s run: 3 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A while ago I picked up this cheap Arm-SoC board from a company called OkDo. The board has a dual core NXP device on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is amazingly little on the internet about it. I found some introductory videos and fooled around with it a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was just thinking about it again the other day. It would be interesting to see if I could get FreeRTOS running on it. The NXP development IDE seems to have a FreeRTOS example. Maybe I should give that a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the things I like about my current job is programming closer to the hardware. Computers are just instruction execution devices. They start at the top and follow the instructions. Something like a microcontroller doesn’t have an operating system, it pretty much has one thread of operation. As the chip gets more powerful then you get into time slicing and multi-tasking and layers of virtualization with various forms of security to keep any malicious task from bringing down the system or peeking into the neighbor tasks’ data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Anyway this E1 board has what it takes to run FreeRTOS. Maybe it would even run some form of embedded Linux, I don’t know. I’m surprised that there isn’t more info along those lines. It is that kind of question that captures my interest: what chip features are necessary to run embedded linux. I should google that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Today’s run: 3 miles] A while ago I picked up this cheap Arm-SoC board from a company called OkDo. The board has a dual core NXP device on it. There is amazingly little on the internet about it. I found some introductory videos and fooled around with it a little bit. I was just thinking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}