Introduction Nuvoton NUC980 is a 300 Mhz ARM processor. Has a host of peripherals onboard: 64/128 MB RAM, 2 Ethernets, 2 CAN masters, some 8 UARTS, SPI, I2C , etc It comes with Linux, uboot and a buildroot system for generating system assets. A popular board is the NUC980 IIOT board The major advantage is that this processor is available for a low cost of 5$ (2021) Intention Try and see how fast the system is Performance of python etc. Given that it was a low RAM system, how convenient would it be write a program in python. Maybe interface a device say a Display. Experiments The tar ball that Nuvoton provides is an approx 8 GB virtual machine running Ubuntu 18.04. One can run this virtual image on an VM emulator. The recommended is VMWARE but it ran comfortably even in an Oracle VirtualBox VME. After logging into the VM and on running a make nuc980_defconfig it generated the uboot, linux and other assets. On Linux one can use nuwriter to flash the SPINAND. A r...
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