C.H.I.P.

I've been very interested in using low cost ARM platforms for my test computers and Linux servers in my home and lab. So far I've got two Raspberry Pi 2 boards as well as a Hummingboard-i2ex from SolidRun. The Hummingboard-i2ex is especially useful for me since it has a PCI Express interface that I need to validate Titan (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Titan and Hummingboard Getting Friendly.

I've never supported a KickStarter project before, but the C.H.I.P. project is a single core ARM board for $9. I thought that a Raspberry Pi was a steal for $35, but the C.H.I.P. is $26 cheaper and it includes flash (eMMC).

PCIe enumeration

Figure 1 doesn't look like much, does it? This simple output from lspci means that the PCI Express interface on the ECP5 is being enumerated on the host. Big step!

Figure 1. Output from lspci