FOX Board LX832 is discontinued
To be informed about its availability and prices please CONTACT US
To know more about the new FOX Board G20 GO HERE
FOX Board LX documentation index
This is the list of document, articles and tutorials related to the FOX Board embedded Linux systems based on Axis ETRAX 100LX CPU
Basics
Resources
Hardware references
Adding external devices
- Extension boards
- USB devices
- GSM
- Bluetooth
- WiFi
- RS232
- RS485 half duplex
- I2C Bus (c)
- SPI
- Other interfaces
- J6 and J7 I/O lines
- Others
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Linux environments
C programming
Flash memory image
Portings
Previous MCM version
Obsolete articles
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WEB programming
- Using Klone
- Using default BOA webserver
- Using socket programming
PHP programming
Errata corrige
Funny stuff
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Be aware that the /mnt/flash directory is mounted on a FLASH memory that can only be written a finite number of times
(about 100K). Please don't save counters, logs or other frequently refreshed files in this directory but use /var
directory instead that is implemented in RAM memory. All the boards broken with this method usually can't be reflashed
and will be considered out of terms of warranty.
Terms and conditions
A great deal of effort has gone into making this documentation as correct as possible.
Due to the continuous contributions that come from the FOX Board community of developers, the Software Development Kit (SDK), the examples and
all the information provided here are under constant construction.
The information here is provided "as is", without warranty or guarantee of any kind.
Phrozen SDK in not an Acme Systems product but a simple container of the software available on Internet under the GPL license
just like Linux, GNU C and all the other amazing software generated by the Open Source community so it is provided "as is",
without any warranty. For any commercial use of this software you have to check by yourself if the license terms are
compatible with your purposes.
Credits
Special thanks for their contribute to:
- Axis developer team (developer.axis.com) the authors Axis SDK.
- John Crispin (www.phozen.org) the author of Phrozen SDK.
- Davide Cantaluppi (www.kdev.it) the author of foxServe.
- Stefano Barbato (www.koanlogic.com) for his contribute to mantain the SDK.
- Claudio Mignanti (www.crisos.org) who is working on CrisOS an OpenWrt porting on FOX Board LX.
- Geert Vancompernolle (thefoxboard.blogspot.com) who improve the I2C driver.
- Fabio Sfuncia (www.foxfib.com) for their contribute to the PHP article.
- Confini Digitali (www.confinidigitali.it) for their contribute to the bluetooth article.
- Michel Xhaard (http://mxhaard.free.fr/embedded.html) the author of:
- Spca5xx-LE an USB webcam driver.
- Servfox a streaming servers specially designed for the FOX Board.
- Spcaview a client streaming viewer for Servfox streaming server.
- Alvaro Salmador and Andrea Partinico for JWebcamPlayer.
- Fifth who wrote a Windows version of .
FOX Board LX Long-Term Strategic Direction
Axis Communications will discontinue on July 2010 the selling of all their CPUs including the
ETRAX 100LX used by Acme Systems on the FOX Board LX832. This page explains how we'll
manage this event and what are the alternatives for our customers
New projects
For the new projects we suggest to evaluate the new FOX Board G20 based on an Atmel ARM9 CPU at 400Mhz.
Previous projects
We'll produce the FOX Board LX832 until we'll find ETRAX 100LX chips. Usually we have at stock
thousands of boards so probably the FOX Board LX832 will be available for long time after the
ETRAX dead line on July 2010.
For customers who want to be sure to have the FOX Board LX after July 2010
we are collecting pre-orders with a fee of 16 euro for each board so we'll stock the CPU chips to use
for yours production. This fee will be detracted from the final FOX board price. This fee
could change in the next months due to possible chip price changes so please place your order as soon as possible
(contact us).
For the customers who want to migrate their projects on a new architecture we suggest the
new FOX Board G20 ( see more info... )
or its CPU module Netus G20 ( see more info... ).
FOX Board G20 is a replacement for the FOX Board LX832 single board computer
( Read FOX Board LX832 vs FOX Board G20)
Viceversa Netus G20 is just the CPU module ideal for hi-volume production on custom carrier boards.
Related link
Axis Communication official announce:
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