DirtyLude
Well-Known Member
DIDN'T I SAY THAT I WAS EXCLUDING ANY SUPPORTING COMPONENTS!!!!!!!!!!
I missed your limitation of the PCB and the power supply, just like you missed my statement that you need ROM for the OS and RAM to run it on. Your statement was, though " ...just bare bones micro controller system requirements!" and oscillators and PLL, are bare bones uC requirements. Also, I don't consider a touchscreen controller to be part of the actual touchscreen, and I would also label that as a barebones requirement. This is a technical forum things get missed or misunderstood."Remember all I am asking for is the bare bones hardware requirements. I am not talking about any development tools or LCD or touch screen or power supply or any DC to DC convertor component costs. Neither am I including the pc board here.... just bare bones micro controller system requirements!"
The OP is pretty much what my needs are and any further details would not help my question.
I disagree. Your original post asks for graphics, backgrounds, fonts, and menu's. That can be handled easily without linux. There are embedded graphics and GUI libraries that do all of the user interface you require, no linux is needed and you can use a simpler controller with integrated ROM/RAM with still a lot of functionality left over for your custom apps.
It's this requirement:
The objective of this is to have a miniature microcomputer system which would allow me to develop any application in C inside the microcontroller.
How memory/cpu intensive are the applications you want to write? Do they require intense floating point math, or are they simply more GUI input/response applications?