The application is battery powered, so I only have the MachZ running at
33MHz, and running some DOS applications.
As far as support circuitry, there really isn't that much!  The great thing
about the part is the fact that everything is integrated.  VGA is literally
pins out of the part. Same with PCI, ISA, IDE, RAM, USB,
serial/parallel.  Pretty much only passive components needed.
Since then, I did another design with another SOC, National Semiconductor's
Geode processor, which is also a fully integrated part, except it's a
pentium core, and runs up to 300MHz!

-Mark

At 10:18 PM 2/13/02 -0300, you wrote:
>Hello Mark,
>
> > I did a design with a ZFLinux MachZ SOC-MZP-Q-1, which is under $50.  The
> > developer documentation and everything was great.  The only issue with
> > getting it on a PCB is the fact that it's a BGA package, which my company
> > doesn't have in-house facilities to mount, so we had to send them out.
>
>     could you please give more details? Performance of the chip? What you
>have to put/create around it (VGA controllers, USB anything, connectors, ISA
>bus, PCB bus, etc)?
>
>     I know the datasheets tell it all, but it's good to hear from who have
>used it in the real world. :)
>
>     Thank you,
>
>     Brusque

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